WOYWW: A Mystery Solved and a Giveaway in the Making!

I just wanted to say a big thank you to all my visitors last week!  What wonderful comments I get every Wednesday!  If you don't know what WOYWW is, drop by Julia's blog and she'll tell you about it!

Remember the foreign language book that I shared about in a previous post?  WOYWW has helped me I find out what language it is in!  I visited Tini-Tin and thought to myself, hmmm, this text looks familiar!  When I asked her if she could help me, she wrote me to say, "As I can see, the book is in Russian. I'm from Bulgaria. The languages are similar, but not equal. The book is abut the popular culture in middle ages and the Renaissance."  And then, Dorka left me a comment saying "... the book is in Russian ;) Nothing close to Greek, though ;) I am Bulgarian and we, together with Russians and a couple of other nations, use the Cyrillic alphabet, and I have also studied Russian, so I am sure (it even says so on the page you took a picture of ;) )."  Isn't it wonderful how the world is smaller and more connected just because we show each other our desks?

Well, here is my desk today...

 I did some cleaning and organizing (again?!, will it never end?) last weekend and since I did not finish, my desk is full (can you even see the desk itself?).  Actually, I even tried to take a picture of the better side!

On top of the pile of papers that need to get filed, is the giveaway fan tucked into a plastic folder, still unfinished, although Anne said, technically, it is a WIP (Work in Progress), and not a UFO (UnFinished Object) ;-).  I did some work on it, cutting out shapes of houses and trees to keep it from becoming a certified UFO. 

And then, since I noticed that I had gotten a few more followers, I started to make a giveaway to celebrate 200 followers (My, my, some people have such good taste!  Seriously, I am sooo delighted and excited when people other than my sisters want to follow my blog).  I wanted to have a giveaway that was bigger than my usual ATC size...

 

I decided on my favorite mother and child theme and started out using my favorite technique of  watercolor and colored pencil on a wall puttied background.  Then I decided to use some of the magazine cutouts and other paper scraps that I've been collecting (when else will I use them, right?).  The traditional Filipiniana dress has big sleeves with embroidery so I used a magazine cutout for the embroidery. The blue patterned paper I used for the baby's blanket is from the inside of envelopes. 

Something else I made this week was a paper rosette to decorate a gift for my sister Tina's birthday (it looks a little lost in the big gift but I was in a rush)...

 

I hope you enjoyed your visit today.  Watch out for my giveaway post.  I will be having it as soon as I reach 200 followers, but of course I have to finish it first.  Happy WOYWW, everyone!