After the post about my skydiving daughter I finally wanted to take you back to Europe. But then I decided this afternoon to re-organize our two grab-and-go boxes. This has been on my list for a while and since we're in wildfire season I felt it necessary to tend to this task now. Over the past two years we have put everything that we deemed important and that we didn't want to lose into these boxes without any order. Today was the day to finally get some order in there and also throw out things that didn't belong in there anymore. I discarded dozens of copies of birth and marriage certificates that weren't notarised as well as looked through piles of photos and organized them again, throwing away those that I'm no longer interested in or that turned up twice or even three times. Now the two boxes are neatly organized again with one being the "must take" and the other the "want take".
But what I didn't get done was writing that blogpost. So today there's only a short post about something that I wanted to show you a while back.
Sometime in the spring I showed you this art journal spread. This was the moment when I got stuck and had no real idea how to go on. I put it to the side and let it sit, knowing that at a certain point I would come back with an idea.
Instead I continued practicing drawing faces. In one video - I can't remember by whom - I saw someone starting drawing a face with the features of the face and not the shape. I was intrigued and tried that, never explicitly adding the shape of the face.
Well, I really need to work on eyes, she looks creepy. But the important thing is that this gave me the inspiration how to proceed with my art journal page.
I started out with drawing the facial features using an aquarellable graphite pencil. Afterwards I added the outline of the face and neck. Then I stencilled the grasses and wildflowers as well as rather sloppy birds. Finally, I added the words "Ruhe finden" which translates to finding peace.
In the end I like the right side page better than the left one. It could stand on its own I think.
These are my faces for this week's Friday Face Off. Thank you, Nicole, for letting us join in the fun!
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OMGosh I love those eyes. So big and expressive. I have important items in a fire box too, I guess it will survive water too. LOL Your journal pages are just gorgeous. I love the colors. Thank you for sharing with FFO and have a very nice weekend.
Es ist nun 2 Jahre (?) her, dass der Polizist klingelte, " anziehen, das Haus brennt.".
Ich habe mir geschworen, alle wichtigen Dokumente griffbereit zu haben.
Nix ist passiert.
Das Leben ist irgendwie "wichtiger"...
Hrgh. Ich hatte ein echt tolles Tutorial bzgl. Augen. "Hatte"... Wenn ichs wieder finde, schick ichs rum! Das war so genial einfach!
So einfach wie Dokumente zusammensuchen (...?)
I love how “Ruhe Finden” emerged so organically from that moment of pause and quiet reflection.
It’s a little sobering to think that preparation for disaster is a requisite in today’s climate-shocked world. But, that’s reality in 2025. It’s a good thing to have organized it, Carola. Forest fires start earlier and burn hotter every year, and spread with greater rapidity too. There is often little time to evacuate. Perhaps the eyes of your lady are wide open with the shock of it all! Many hugs - David
...Carola, I wish you peace and an Awesome August. Keep the music playing.
Liebe Carola,
allein schon der Gedanke, so eine Kiste zusammenzustellen – mit den wichtigsten Dingen, die man bei einem Waldbrand (oder etwas Vergleichbarem) mitnehmen sollte – verursacht mir Schweißausbrüche. Ich weiß, man soll sein Herz nicht zu sehr an „Dinge“ hängen und dass Erinnerungen im Kopf wohnen. Und auch wir werden, wenn wir unseren Plan durchziehen, in etwa fünf bis sieben Jahren in eine Seniorenresidenz übersiedeln – dabei werden wir ebenfalls vieles aussortieren müssen. Dennoch überfordert mich der Gedanke im Moment. Aber ich denke: Wenn es notwendig ist – und ihr habt ja bereits erlebt, wie notwendig es werden kann – dann wächst man da irgendwie hinein…
Deine Journal-Seite gefällt mir in beiden Versionen. Sie können gut für sich alleine stehen, aber auch wunderbar miteinander harmonieren. Schön, dass dich die Inspiration gefunden hat, wie es weitergehen könnte! Und Ruhe finden ist immer ein gutes Motto.
Ich sende dir herzliche Grüße aus Österreich und wünsche dir einen tollen August 🌻
Traude
🌿 https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2025/07/musikalischer-juli-blogparade-urban.html
I certainly need to set up a "grab and go" box that is fireproof and easily accessible in an emergency.
The grab and go box is a great idea. I think everyone should have one or two, including me, even if I don't live in wildfire country. (Well in an area that doesn't get a lot of big ones-but you never know though). That's a lovely journal page Carola. I like the flowers and the music paper background, and of course the lovely features you added, including the face. Have a super start to the new month. hugs-Erika
Beautiful journal page and the face is so well done ~ hugs,
an artist reflects
What a fun and very creative exercise and it looks very nice on that page, too. And well done on the sorting of the boxes. I hate to say it but 'tis the season.
Beautiful art!
Dear Carola, I absolutely love ❤️ your gorgeous journal page. I wish you peace, good health and happiness 😊
I like your face drawing.
I enjoyed reading about your process for the art page you created. It's beautiful.
With the recent strong earthquake in Russia and resulting tsunami alerts, it's important for us here to think about grab and go boxes, too.
You asked about the Black Forest Sauce on my blog - it's cherries with a bit of chocolate and kirsch in the the sauce. Very nice on cake or ice cream, but not a patch on the original Black Forest Cake that a German friend used to make.
Hi Carola, I loved this page so much I just had to come back and admire it again! It is truly beautiful and very creative!
In response to your kind comment on my blog, if you ever come to Quebec, the fact that you speak French will help you a lot! People don't have to speak French when they come here, but the fact that you do will help. And never mind about the Quebecois dialect, it isn't a French that is for the most part understood even by people who do speak French! LOL! You speak a good French, as do I, and this means that wherever you go where the French language is used people will understand you! This is what is most important. :)
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