Sweden’s Big Christmas Decoration Trend (And You Can Make It Yourself!)

There’s only one week to go before the first Sunday of advent and Christmas decorations are starting to pop across Sweden. Don’t get me wrong, they haven’t gone the whole hog – Christmas trees and dried orange garlands can wait. But nothing cuts through the darkness and lights your way home like the soft, white glow from ‘adventstake’ (7 candles arranged in a triangle), fairy lights and lanterns. Paper star lanterns have been one of the favourites for many years in Sweden, but this year there’s a newcomer on the block: the ‘snöblomma‘. Made from tracing paper, card or even brown paper bags, these beautiful ‘snow flowers’ look equally beautiful hung in the window as they do strung up around the house. Last year they sold like wildfire so I wanted to give you a heads up – and spread a little snow flower love!

Möbelmästarna Trollhättan

Nic

Viktoria Holmgren

Aren’t they beautiful?! There’s a whole array available online – here are a few of my favourites:

GET THE LOOK

1. Paper star
2. Paper lamp shade lantern
3. Watt & Veke Julia Pappstjärna Blush
4. Snöblomma adventsstjärna
5. Watt & Veke Julius Pappstjärna Vit
6. Kathmandu paper star
7. Watt & Veke Oslo Pappstjärna
8. Paper flake
9. Watt & Veke Juliette Pappstjärna Rosa
10. Hanging paper stars

Not available in your country, or prefer to make your own? The good news is that some of these varieties are so easy to make. My girls and I followed Viktoria Holmgren’s step by step DIY tutorial below and within an hour we’d created an entire garland!

Simple snow flowers

Alternatively, if you’re a bit of a dab hand at origami (I’m not!), you might like to create your own multi-tiered snow flower. Linnéa has shared a great tutorial (it’s in Swedish but accompanied by plenty of pictures to guide you through the process) below:

Masterclass for the origami gifted!

There’s also a fun tutorial on how to make paper stars from lunch bags here.

What do you think? Could you imagine hanging these in your home this Christmas?

I think they’re so beautiful!

Hop over to this archive to see more Scandi Christmas decorating inspiration this weekend (if this pops up first just scroll over!).

Have a fabulous couple of days friends and see you Monday!

Niki

PS I promise I’m not going to flood the blog with daily Christmas inspiration between now and the 24th December (although there’ll certainly be a few!), I just thought I’d better get this out there in case you wanted to hop on the snow flower train! I’ve got a great home tour to share with you on Monday – not a decoration in sight!

Credits: top picture Fanny Blinden