‘Decorating the tree has to be my favourite Christmas tradition,’ says designer and maker Clare Youngs, as she adds the finishing touches under the watchful gaze of her dachshund, Otis. The children still love helping with it, even though they are all grown up now. They light the fire, put on Christmas music and bring out the dusty boxes filled with decorations,’ she says, smiling as she talks of the ornaments her children made from pasta shapes when they were in
