Scandi-obsession: Nordic Julekuler and a Nordic-style glass

Hi all! Enjoyed your weekend? I certainly did. The weather has been gorgeous and I enjoyed my last holiday weekend in the sun in my garden. As for the crafts, well, as you can see this year I'm equally obsessing about any Nordic stuff as much as I was last year and I still find the Nordic culture fascinating. Here are more of my recent red-n-white makes.

Some more new Norwegian Julekuler finished off and decorated. I have finally reached the book chapter with the heart designs and I enjoyed knitting them a lot! 

*(julekuler  = Christmas balls in Norwegian)

Individually, with their names...

 ("Christmas Package" 29/55)

These three gemmed heart balls are my favourites in this batch of balls :) Simple but charming pattern, easy to knit and it looks great when embellished with some rhinestones. They will sparkle nicely in the sunlight if you place the balls near a window.

 ("Heart" 30/55)

 ("Heart" 30/55)

 ("Heart Lattice" 31/55)

  ("Hospitality: Room in the Heart" 32/55)

                                                                ("Meeting Hearts" 33/55)

There is some more work in the progress. Currently knitting my 38th ball :)

For my "julekuler" I have glass-painted a big glass cube to display the balls in (or perhaps some sweets or little baubles, not sure yet...) I decided to give this plain glass a decorative band with some Norwegian motifs. I used a white and red relief paste as well as I glued on some red and white rhinestones for the sparkly finish. I left the band partially transparent as I decided it looks better when you can see through it. The cube retains the lightness this way, I think.

And this is what the cube looks like when empty...

Sadly today has been the last day of my holidays. Back to work tomorrow! This means less time for crafting! Boooo!!
Hand-made Monday time! Head over to Handmade Harbour blog to see what other crafty people have been up to!

Butterfly Glass Cube. Hand Made Monday

Hi all. Hope you're all well and in a crafty mood :)

This week has been extremely busy for me due to the craft fair, which took place yesterday inWrexham. I dug out my painting pots again and had been painting fresh new glass like mad all week, from Monday to Friday after hours to have some fresh and festive stuff on my stall. The fair was all right, not a big wow though. Rather poorly advertised and on top of that (apparently) there were some other 2 fairs going on at the same time somewhere in the area. Some pics for you to have a peek:

And here is my new creation from this week - a small glassy cube with a pink/purple butterfly motif on it. It sold quite quickly on the craft fair yesterday :) I wonder what a future owner is going to do with it... :) keep flowers in it? sweets? seashells? Turn it into a tealight candleholder?

The butterfly motif has been painted 3 times but in different colour arrangements. The 4th side has been deliberately left blank for the personalised words Specially For You. 

Thanks everybody for all the comments you've left under my last posts. Pleasure to read them x x x. Welcome my new followers too!

I'm feeling stitchy tonight, after such a busy weekend full of craft selling, shopping, driving round and helping with some home repairs I feel like putting my feet up and relax for the rest of the day with my festive stitches. Shame Sunday is almost over!

Hand-made Monday tonight! Join in and see some other lovely crafty places! I'm curious what others have been up to this week!