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Bring Danish Christmas traditions home with ornaments, decorations, nisser, seasonal foods, and distinctive holiday gifts from the Danish Windmill. Explore Scandinavian favorites selected to add warmth, character, and a little Danish hygge to your celebration.

Stories Told in Porcelain

Danish plates bring art, craftsmanship, and tradition to the table. Whether displayed or used, each one offers a small piece of Denmark to enjoy at home.

Own a Piece of History
Blue Royal Copenhagen porcelain plate

A Danish Christmas

Bring home the warmth of a holiday shaped by candles, traditions, and time together.

Christmas tree in a historic Danish room
Three Danish troll figurines
Danish troll figurines in the Market

Bring Home a Little Danish Mischief

Handmade characters, small stories, and delightful surprises for a shelf, a stocking, or a favorite person.

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Santa is Coming to IOWA

An exciting holiday classic for children that is a must-have for any home! It's Christmas Eve, have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa will fly south from his home in the North Pole, over the ice and the snow, right over your town, all the way to your house. Do you hear footsteps on the roof…? Santa Is Coming to My House marks the start of a holiday regional series that showcases your state's many landmar

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Scandi Christmas

Over 45 Projects and Quick Ideas for Beautiful Decorations & Gifts Make the festive season really special and create these stunning step-by-step projects with a Scandinavian flavor, including cards, decorations, garlands, and cozy gifts. Christiane Bellstedt Myers has developed a beautiful collection of Christmas essentials using natural materials and traditional color themes of red and white, and green and silver. The four chapters cover a wide range of crafts, including collage, embroidery, se

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ScandiKitchen Christmas

Let Bronte Aurell of The ScandiKitchen Café show you how to celebrate your Christmas Scandi-style by sharing her delicious recipes and family traditions with you. Anyone who has ever been in Scandinavian in December will know that Scandinavians really love Christmas. From huddling up in candlelit snowed-in cottages to consuming glögg at every opportunity, Christmas is peak-hygge season all over Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Everything reverts back to tradition once Advent Sunday has come along. F

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Scandinavian-Style Christmas Knits

Charming accessories and decorations for the tree, the windowsill, wreaths, holiday place settings, and more. Bring warmth, coziness, and handmade care to your home for the holiday season, with designs inspired by Scandinavian tradition and the natural world, worked in beautifully coordinated colors intended to suit any décor. From straightforward, classic stars and hearts for the beginner to more complex projects for the veteran—including a wintertime forest floor studded with mushrooms and aco

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Seasonal Scandi Crafts

Create 45 simple projects with a Scandinavian flavor, including home decorations, garlands, and beautiful gifts. Christiane Bellstedt Myers has developed a beautiful collection of decorative makes using rustic fabrics and natural materials. The four chapters—Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter—cover a wide range of crafts, including collage, embroidery, painting, and sewing, and take inspiration from Scandinavian seasonal traditions to bring magic to your year. Celebrate the coming of Spring with a

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Set of 3 - Felt Green Trees w/Pearls Ornaments

Gry & Sif Design It all started with a backpacking trip to Nepal in 2001. The plan was to continue eastwards, but our interest and love for this amazing country made us stay. We saw how the Nepalese people were living. We wanted to combine simple Danish design with this amazing raw and rustic fabric and the idea of "Gry & Sif" was born. All Gry & Sif products are handmade, so there is only "one" of each, as there will always be small differences on each product. Gry & Sif is Danish design, but a

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Set of 3 - Felt Mixed Candy Ornaments

Gry & Sif Design It all started with a backpacking trip to Nepal in 2001. The plan was to continue eastwards, but our interest and love for this amazing country made us stay. We saw how the Nepalese people were living. We wanted to combine simple Danish design with this amazing raw and rustic fabric and the idea of "Gry & Sif" was born. All Gry & Sif products are handmade, so there is only "one" of each, as there will always be small differences on each product. Gry & Sif is Danish design, but a

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Set of 5 - Mini Felt Flags

It all started with a backpacking trip to Nepal in 2001. The plan was to continue eastwards, but our interest and love for this amazing country made us stay. We saw how the Nepalese people were living. We wanted to combine simple Danish design with this amazing raw and rustic fabric and the idea of "Gry & Sif" was born. All Gry & Sif products are handmade, so there is only "one" of each, as there will always be small differences on each product. Gry & Sif is Danish design, but all handmade in Ne

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Set of 5, Felt Forest Animals

Gry & Sif Design It all started with a backpacking trip to Nepal in 2001. The plan was to continue eastwards, but our interest and love for this amazing country made us stay. We saw how the Nepalese people were living. We wanted to combine simple Danish design with this amazing raw and rustic fabric and the idea of "Gry & Sif" was born. All Gry & Sif products are handmade, so there is only "one" of each, as there will always be small differences on each product. Gry & Sif is Danish design, but a

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The Christmas Wish

In the tradition of The Snowman, The Polar Express, and the many books of Jan Brett this cozy Nordic tale filled with extraordinary photographs will have readers of all ages believing in the magic of Christmas. This is one to pull out every year and savor. Long ago, a brave little girl named Anja wanted to be one of Santa's elves. So she leaves a note for her family and helps her elderly neighbor prepare for the holiday, then she straps on her skis, and heads out into the snowy landscape. From a

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The Hygge Holiday

he perfect recipe for hygge: make a hot chocolate, draw the curtains, snuggle under a blanket and read your way to happiness! It's autumn in Yulethorpe and everyone is gloomy. It's cold, drizzly and the skies are permagrey. The last shop on the high street - an adorable little toy shop - has just shut its doors. Everything is going wrong for Yulethorpe this autumn. Until Clara Kristensen arrives. Clara is on holiday but she can see the potential in the pretty town, so she rolls up her sleeves an

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The Little Winter Book of Gnomes

A cozy book of gnomes (and gnomes), just in time for the holidays Similar to the Norwegian nisser Kirsten grew up hearing about, gnomes have always fascinated her. When she realized that a “gnome” was also another word for a proverb, Kirsten brought the two together. The result is a charming collection of Scandinavian wisdom accented by whimsical illustrations. There are gnome women chopping wood (“chop your own wood and it will warm you twice”), men surreptitiously knitting (“two balls of yarn

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The Nisse Book

A delightful children's book about a Danish farm family and the Nisse that brings them good luck and takes care of them. Nisser are small invisible people of danish (and Norwegian) folktales, know for the hard work and iconic red hats. However, if they don't receive their yearly wage of a bowl of porridge, they become angry and play tricks on their human families. this collection of charming stories by Albert Jorgensen was first published in Danish as "Nisseborgen" in 1935. the test of the Engli

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The Reindeer Wish

New York Times bestselling duo Lori Evert and Per Breiehagen (The Christmas Wish and The Tiny Wish) sweep us back into their enchanting world with yet another breathtaking adventure featuring their daughter, Anja. When Anja discovers an abandoned reindeer baby in the woods, she cares for it and raises it as her own. They become dear friends and have many adventures together, but as the reindeer grows he wishes to rejoin his kind. So Anja leads him to join the greatest reindeer of all—those of Sa

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