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Dear Readers, Around here, we have a really nice tradition. We plan a Friday after work for making Christmas decorations and having dinner together. We clear the large tables in the cafeteria and fill them with materials. Susanne, our skilled floral decorator, runs the show. She does the shopping and goes to the woods to gather nature’s materials. She also lends a helping hand to whoever needs one. Once all the decorations are finished, we relax with wine and pizza. Last year, everybody took part. One of the ”girls” out here shared with us that she had decided to skip making an advent wreath and a decoration for her calendar candle this year. She has always hated doing it but felt like it was an obligation because ”that’s what you do when it’s Christmas.” Now, at the age of 46, she’d decided to put an end to it! She loves candles and uses a lot of them throughout the month of December – but she really can’t stand Christmas decorations. So why should she force herself ? The happy fact that she stopped by anyway just for the company – that’s a different story. I have so much respect for her decision and for her sticking to it! Oddly enough, throughout the month of December, we encountered several people on our photo shoots for the magazine and the Christmas book who echoed the same sentiment. Everyone has so many things on their To Do list every day. Things that can’t be skipped: cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, cooking... Life is full of duties and obligations. They’re a necessary part of everyday life. Some of them we like; others are carried out only out of duty. We also do things to help other people and make them happy. It’s a really nice thing, doing something that perhaps you don’t love for the sole purpose of making someone else happy. I definitely approve of this. But it is the case that there are certain tasks where perhaps it doesn’t make a great difference to anyone whether they’re done or not. Whether you make an advent wreath, for instance. So our advice to you is this: Do it if you want to, and if you don’t feel like it – don’t do it! In our opinion, time has run out for doing a bunch of things just because you’re ”supposed to.”

These days, there’s not so much a question of right or wrong. Christmas is celebrated in many different ways – or perhaps not at all. You have to feel inside yourself what it is you actually want to do. Personally, I love to make decorations but I’m really not that good at baking. and I actually don’t love eating cookies either. So why make them? We can buy the cookies that we need from the baker’s, or my mother will probably bring a tin like she usually does. Because she loves to bake! luckily, we’re all different like that.

Lonnie & Vivian

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Page 20. Old Tins Page 31. Pomegranate Page 37. Christmas in the Summerhouse Page 47. Karen, JDL Co-Worker Page 48. Christmas with Fragrant Herbs Page 52. The History of Christmas Ornaments Page 54. holiday Spice Page 62. enchantingly Swedish

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Chief Editors: Vivian Christensen Mail: vivian@jeannedarcliving.dk Lonnie Würtz Jensen Mail: jeannedarc@jeannedarcliving.dk

Graphics & Layout: Lonnie Würtz Jensen, Helle Routhe & Tina Hald

Editorial Office: Jeanne d’arc living apS Houmarksvej 92, Kondrup 8920 Randers NV, Denmark Tlf: +45 36932010 Mail: jeannedarc@jeannedarcliving.dk www.jeannedarcliving.dk Blog: www.jdlblog.dk

Photography & Styling: Lonnie Würtz Jensen & Dorte Palsgaard

Flower Arrangers: Susanne Sølvsten & lonnie Würtz Jensen

Food, Text & Styling: vivian Christensen & Susanne Sølvsten Handyman: Ole Sørensen

Page 80. Sømods Bolcher in Copenhagen Page 90. Ice Skating Princesses Page 94. Decorate with Skates Page 98. Versatile Nuts Page 107. Splendid Crystals Page 118. The Winter Garden Page 126. The Most Beautiful Christmas Flowers Page 133. A Delight to the Eye

Translation to Swedish, English, Dutch & German: www.wordtoword.dk Translation into Norwegian: www.translatoren.com Mail: translatoren@live.no

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Text & Photography: Pia van Spaendonck

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In 1995, Doris discovered an empty shop in the historic part of Düsseldorf, the socalled Carlstadt borough. This is where she opened her store Gute N8. The preferred color of the store and the products was her own personal favorite – white. The store sold beds and mattresses but also all kinds of interior relating to the bedroom and bathroom: Italian linens, beautiful nightgowns, cashmere shawls, fragrances, soap, etc. The store was beautifully furnished and very different from other, traditional bedding stores. And it quickly

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