Friday, May 31, 2013

I Am Your Bubble Gum Bitch;)


A Regular Friday;)

I Love My Dear Anna! Spotify Amazements.

"I chew you up and I spit you out 
'Cause that's what your love is all about 
So pull me closer and kiss me hard 
I'm gonna pop your bubblegum heart 

I'm miss sugar pink, liquor liquor lips 
Hit me with your sweet love, steal me with a kiss 
I'm miss sugar pink, liquor liquor lips 
I'm gonna be your bubblegum bitch 
I'm gonna be your bubblegum bitch"


today was Lotta pa Brakmakargatan, yes you are in trouble.

LOVE
alice solantania saga

Amber Rose Ortolano










I Saw & It Swept My Life Away

The beauty of Amber Rose Ortolano's photography is immense and I lost my tongue of voice. 

IN AWE


Poem (from her blog):

  "Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there; I do not sleep.


I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft star-shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die."

- Mary Elizabeth Frye


ENJOY
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Alice Solantania Saga

Thursday, May 30, 2013

ALICE SAGA'S WONDERLAND


THE DREAMS OF MY WONDERLAND

Holding On Tightly As Ever

and Happy birthday Malcolm.

This week is:

Mood: Sad about the weather.....if no change I will move country in October. No reason to stay.
Obsession: To Be Near
Color: Lavender
TV: Babel
Film: In The Mood for Love by Kar Wai Wong
Book: Just finished The Hunger Games:)) Oh How I Loved it! 
Song: Real Wild Child with Iggy Pop
Group/ Musician: Austra
Artist: Dilka Bear (still)
Store: Kee Boutique (still)
Designer: Charles Anastase is back:)))
Photographer: You'll see tomorrow
Instagram: Vivetta
Place: My garden
Drink: Gin & Diet Tonic
Food: Peanut Butter Peanut Butter Peanut Butter:)

Quote:

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.”
- Anais Nin

"I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
-Anais Nin

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Alice Solantania Saga
(mood board by me and images taken from my Coquette Journal Tumblr blog)



Today I Am A Child of the Wonder We Call Moon


 MAGICAL THINKING!

outfit:

Cacharel blouse
Grandma's heart
H&M skirt
Prada belt
Pippi Longstocking braids;0)

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Alice Solantania Saga

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

A Cinderella Story

Angel Minnie Style!

My Wednesday:)

Started with The Hunger Games, continued to The Beautifully Damned to A Cinderella Story;)

LOVE ALWAYS
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Obsession Now: Austra's "Spellwork"



Amazing as directed by Yelena Yemchuk.

MAGIC

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Alice Solantania Saga

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

A Mischievous Pagan Poetry Day





I did not have a great evening last night, I let myself down. So this morning I did an almost 5 hour walk followed by 1 hour on the treadmill at my gym to empty it all out. Almost finished The Hunger Games:)) I do not want it to end though, what on earth can replace this amazing book? Any Ideas?

Did create a new collage today, cutting & pasting and I call it  Mischievous Pagan Poetry Beauty. I might create a book one day illustrating this amazingly upside down year from Valentines day of 2013 to the next one 2014. It features all my loves. And How I Feel Basically at The Moment.

Thank you matthew for hanging around me.

Ohlalalalala

"Death and terror rules the soul
You have been spellbound
By the Devil
Murderer, you have returned
To create fear and sorrow
Death and terror rules the land
We have been spellbound
By the Devil"

-AUSTRA

Images: 1 Me. Dress from Independent Kostym, Top Shop cardie, Screaming Mimis belt. 2 From my morning walk in Dulwich Woods.3 I live among this beauty.4 Clockwise from top left: My work is now out in Crash Magazine, here Sophia wears a Fall 2013 Simone Rocha dress and Fall 13 Prada platform shoes. My collage work from today, Mischievous Pagan Poetry I call it. Dulwich Woods beauty, I was taken by this scenery. Lastly I NEED THIS BIKE, Anyone know what bike this is???

LOVE
Alice Solantania Saga 

Today I Am A Flowery Child Grandma!


Today's Outfit:

Dress from Independent Kostym (from their yearly sale)
Belt from Screaming Mimis
Top Shop yellow cardie
Prada ballerinas

How I Feel Now:

"Händerna upp i luften.
Pannan mot baren, nu spränger vi taket.
Hamnar i himlen, där änglarna gråter.
Stan är vaken, allt är förlåtet älskling!
Händerna upp i luften.
Vi ska bli fulla, livet är meningslöst.
Vem bryr sig?
Natten är vacker, du är som natten.
Och jag är en vinnare igen."

Händerna upp i luften,J.Berg for Petra Marklund

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Alice Solantania Saga

Monday, May 27, 2013

Today I Am Adorably Magical



Just ask my friend Matthew;)!

MAGIC NOW:
"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute:
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Only engage and then the mind grows heated;
Begin and then the work will be completed."
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today's Outfit:
H&M flowery blue print dress, antique cross & grandma's sandals.
LOVE
Alice Solantania Saga





Diary 220: And I Shambled After As Usual












So it is a bank holiday weekend here in England so everyone is off today:) a lot of people go on mini vacations so Dulwich has less people and my neighbours are gone which means it's dead quiet here which I love.

Me myself has taken long walks and planned a couple of shoots, hanging out at Franklins and The Rye, created my collages and tried to dress up cutely every day:)

Top to bottom: HI:))) me in my lavender dress from Snoopers Attic. 2-5 Snaps from my morning walks around Dulwich. BEAUTY I think. 6 Me in a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress. 7 Yesterday while cooking dinner I hung out in my garden with The Sunday Times Magazine and a glass of wine. 8  Details of what I was wearing Saturday, the Snooper Attic dress, skull scarf a gift from Rodney at Franklins, Beyond Retro dotted cardigan and a yellow Top Shop cardie. 9 I Shambled After As Usual. 10 A collage I call The Life of Solantania. See me??? 11 Another collage I created this weekend that I call You Are Unrepeatable.

BEAUTY

"I shambled after as usual as I've been doing all my life after people that interest me, because the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yearn or say a commonplace thing...but burn, burn, burn like roman candles across the night"

- From the original manuscript of On The Road by Jack Kerouac.

Happy Monday
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Alice Solantania Saga

Sunday, May 26, 2013

A Sunshine Sunday

Such a Sunshine Happy Day:)

Started with a 3 hour walk, first listening to the Swedish radio only to continue on to The Hunger Games which I am currently obsessed by. At home I got myself ready, I am wearing a Diane Von Furstenberg wrap silk dress with a pink lady face print today:) with faux diamond earrings. Blueberry breakfast it was & then I took off to The Rye in Peckham where I am now blogging from. Came to go through all recipes & health tips I have saved over the years:) one to learn how to cook and the second to Stay Well!! If you are a regular reader of my blog I am sure you know I have been constantly ill since January & I am Finally well and want to keep just that.

To Health Sunshine Summery Happiness to you all I say CHEERS from a girl in Dulwich:)

Yes today I look so proper that I am pretending I graduated from Handelshögskolan in Stockholm :)) A Malcolm would laugh if he saw this;)

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Alice Solantania Saga

Clockwise from top left: Dulwich Woods. Breakfast. Me in all the layers plus my DVF wrap dress. What I plan to bake next week if you dare believe: Cardamon, saffron, toasted rhubarb and pistachio meringue roulade. HA!

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Today I Am A Sweet Heart of The Grateful Dead Society




I NEED A CAT!

today is The Grateful Dead.

Lavender full length singoalla style dress from Snoopers Attic in Brighton

off for some wine now & to plan how to get a kitten in to my life.

The sweetness is in The Gardens.

Happy Saturday Lovely Adorable Readers.
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Alice Solantania Saga

Friday, May 24, 2013

A Friday As Katniss Everdeen

;)! As imagined always. X Alice
Clockwise from top left: My snap from Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, in love with the dress. My snap from The Wallace Collection featuring Marie Antoinette (if I remember correctly). Self Portrait in muy garden, I am wearing a dress by Alexandra Grecco. Butterflies from the adorable pub The Rye in Peckham.

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Alice Solantania Saga

Inspiration Friday is Kane Hopkins & His "Twin" Series








The other day while going through my Tumblr stream I came across Kane Hopkins and his images of this series that he calls Twins. The colors, sweetness of the girls, sense of love, backdrop, white, roughness of place = Stunningly Beautiful Images of what I would say is of two Innocent Brides, which I of course always have a weakness for.

I LOVE KANE HOPKINS

some links to his works:


ENJOY!

Thursday, May 23, 2013

A Lovely Lovely Thursday in Dulwich



Wearing my new dress for the first time and I feel Pretty;)

Created a long walk today and even went to the gym, I can not stop running now when I am finally healthy. Blueberry breakfast. Then went to Franklins Farm Shop for an apple where the adorable Ella works, her partner in crime Daniel is too a lovely addition whom too happens to star in the Crunchy Nut Kellogg's Alien & Dinosaur commercials:))) Yes he does wear my sunnies:))) Met my friend Eric at Franklins whom happens to have the coolest art materials.

Top to bottom: 1 ME:) in my new dress from The Shop (where my friend Jenny works) off Brick Lane. A Laura Ashley one from the early 80's. 2 Detail of today. Skulls & Flowers. 3 Clockwise from top left: breakfast time. quirkyness in Dulwich as seen this morning. FREEDOM. Eric's colored pencils from early 80's. The pair:))) Ella & Daniel at Franklins Farm Shop.

HAPPY THURSDAY EVENING TO YOU ALL.

And let's hope I get to see the Chelsea Flower show tomorrow:)

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Alice Solantania Saga

ALICE SAGA'S WONDERLAND


The Beauty of Our Flowers:)

Faithfullness, Bashful Love, Innocence, Splendor, Hope & Happiness
=
NOW

This Week Is:

Mood: I Am Love
Obsession: The Gym & Bodyblast Finally:)
Color: Yellow as in Sunshine
TV: Gold for Tre Kronor:))) The Ice Hockey game of course
Film: I Am Love
Book: The Hunger Games still. It's just perfection. 
Song: Fred with Petra Marklund
Musician: Ane Brun
Artist: Dilka Bear
Store: Kee Boutique (just got 2 60's style dresses here)
Photographer: Jesse Shadoan (whom I hope to work with soon)
Blog/ Website: Tea & Tulips
Instagram: Bec Winnel
Place: Chelsea Flower Show (hope to go tomorrow:) Excited)
Drink: All the wines at Franklins when their is no house white;)
Food: Vegetables with quorn burgers

Quote:

"I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."

 - Anaïs Nin


HAPPY THURSDAY MY ADORABLE READERS

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ALICE SOLANTANIA SAGA
(quote & photo of flowers from Tumblr)