Saturday, August 31, 2013

A Flowery Nation Violet Day

One could call my house The Flowery Nation;) I mean since it is packed with flower printed dresses.

Outfit

vintage dress from Beyond Retro
antique cross
bangles from Screaming Mimis
violet flowery printed flats by Burberry
blonde by Bradley at BLEACH

A Franz Kafka Moment:

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

&

Express Yourself

Happy Saturday Adorable Alice in Wonderland Readers! X alice solantania saga

Friday, August 30, 2013

Amber Rose Ortolano (Part II)











A FAIRY DREAM OF LONGING AWAY AWAY AWAY. LISTEN!

This past spring I somehow find the beauty of Amber Rose Ortolano's work and for that I am tremendously grateful. I live for work like this, it drives me to create create & create and to be wanting to become better.

 Here my Part II full of inspirations she has given to the world.

 Love To Amber Rose Ortolano!

Poem (found on 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."

xxx
alice solantania saga


Thursday, August 29, 2013

Alice Saga's Wonderland


"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.

This Week Is:

Mood: EXCITED
Obsession: Sugar-Plum Fairy
Color: Green
TV: Livet pa Operan (Swedish Televison)
Radio: P1's Sommar Prat (an amazing Swedish show)
Book: Still reading The Beautiful & Damned
Group/ Musician: Lady Gaga
Song: Applause (of course)
Artist: Mark Ryden
Designer: Ryan Lo
Photographer: I'll create a second Inspiration Friday post tmrw:)
Instagram: Simple Healthy
Food: HEALTHY
Drink: Tom's Tomato Juice (DELICIOUS)

Beauty Still:

Den fulländade friheten

"Att få finnas och färdas
Att ta ner det oförklarliga
Skriva under med sitt väsen
Att få tillgång till allt
Att skingra molnen där och då
Utan förväntningar på något mer
Än det mäktigaste utav allt
Ett finger i luften"



SHINE SO THAT THROUGH YOU OTHERS CAN SEE THEMSELVES BRIGHTLY AS DIAMONDS

kärlek
Alice Solantania Saga
(Images in my collage that are not by me are taken from my pinterest (re-pinned)& tumblr (re-blogged), please let me know if I have used your image and you want to be credited and I will do asap)



And Then I Turned Into A Sugar-Plum Fairy That Creates Pagan Poetry



Yesterday being my own doppelganger I suddenly transformed into a Sugar-Plum Fairy;)

 What did happen was that I had entered the Salvage Hunters antique shop in Dalston and thrifted Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker album (with the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra) which carries the song to the dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy:))

 I went home and changed outfit to match.

outfit

Absolute Vintage dress
Marc by Marc Jacobs barrette
Screaming Mimis bangles & belt
grandmas gold heart
Office patent leather ballerinas

and then I created this collage that I call:
 Shine So That Others Can Shine Through You!

And I Wish All Days Were Like Your Birthday. Happy Thursday.
xxx
alice solantania saga
( Images in my collage that are not by me are taken from my pinterest (re-pinned)&  tumblr (re-blogged), please let me know if I have used your image and you want to be credited and I will do asap)



Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Fairy Pagan Poetry Tales of London by Linda Portman for Crash Magazine

Fairy Pagan Poetry Tales of London by Linda Portman for Crash Magaine









My july art project for Crash was an amazing wonderful experience. It showcases some places that I adore in London. Here I show some of my favorite ones, go to Crash website to see what they choose.


Hope you love it as much as I do.
xxx
alice solantania

Today I Am My Doppelgänger

A Sinister Alter Ego in a Fairy Pagan Sailor Poetry Tale Way.

Outfit for today's Pagan Adventures

United Bamboo dress
grandma's gold heart
aunts pearl earrings
Screaming Mimis bangles
handmade sandals from Spain

Today I am My Doppelgänger!

xxx
alice solantania saga

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

A Sunshine Violet Creating Strange Magic





to create or see creation

A Sunshine Violet Day

My ex boyfriend loved yellow and my nickname became SUNSHINE when I wore it:) So today is a mixture of Violet's attitude with the Sunshine one of Yellow.

I've created all day except from writing credits and starting to think about outfits for New York's Fashion Week. Too had a glass of wine at Franklins while creating my Strange Magic collage;)))

My first Violet Butterfly happened today too, see?

today's outfit

Beyond Retro sunshine dress
my aunts pearl earrings
grandma's gold heart
Burberry flowery printed flats

"And those who were
seen dancing were
thought to be insane by
those who could not bear
the music"
xxx
alice solantania saga
(quote of Nietzsche from Good Reads)

A Day of Being Cute & An Alice in Wonderland Poem By A Mademoiselle Roberta


Sometimes when I get dressed I just want to look cute, to not go into a character. Yesterday was like this. Funnily enough I think I am cute leaving my house and the second I enter my second home, Franklins, the owner Rod tells me to put some clothes on;)) hahaha!! Ohlalala.

anyhow, the cute outfit consisted of:

A 50's vintage cropped top
Top Shop skirt
Marc by Marc Jacobs barrette
grandma's gold heart
Screaming Mimis bangles
Office patent leather ballernas

My friend Roberta emailed me this Alice in Wonderland poem yesterday, that she created when she was little and I find it to be so Beautiful. Thank you for sharing Roberta.

Alice

As a child I found a wonderland.
Where Alice found a door .
Though quickly lost her dreams 
When Alice was no more.

The green book thrown upon a
sea of flames, her hands too small to reach;
she vanished through a looking glass, 
as i watched through eyes of rain.

That night at the mad hatters tea party,
beyond the pleas of priests.
He piled the volumes and destroyed 
the sweetest childhood sleeps.

-Roberta Francis Transgender Poet

xxx
alice solantania saga




Monday, August 26, 2013

My Sunday As A Russian Doll & Some Sleeping Beauties




The Sunday started with a heavenly rain...that turned into sunshine:) Had breakfast got myself ready for the day and decided to be a Russian Doll for my Sunday;) See why?

Finished my art project and sent it to my editor. Organized my crazy house a little bit, a house madly packed with printed colorful dresses and inspirations:) Met up with a few friends at the newly re-opened The Ivy House. Then home to create my daily collage which yesterday focused on Sleeping Beauties, the ones who are to BLOOM when time is right.

A Russian Doll Day Outfit

Dress from a vintage stall in Camden
grandma's gold heart
russian doll bracelet founded on the street in Dulwich:) history!
flowery printed flats by Burberry

beauty i found on pinterest:

"someday
someone is
going to look
at you with a
light in their 
eyes you've
never seen,
they'll look
at you like
you're
everything
they've been
looking for
their entire
lives. 
WAIT FOR IT."

(What I Need & Want Now)

xxx
alice solantania saga
( Images in my collage that are not by me are taken from my pinterest (re-pinned)& tumblr (re-blogged), please let me know if I have used your image and you want to be credited and I will do asap)

 & a repeat of Kleerup perfection:


Den fulländade friheten

"Att få finnas och färdas
Att ta ner det oförklarliga
Skriva under med sitt väsen
Att få tillgång till allt
Att skingra molnen där och då
Utan förväntningar på något mer
Än det mäktigaste utav allt
Ett finger i luften"





Sunday, August 25, 2013

Diary 231: A Weekend of A Rabbit, Food, Inspirations & Some Outfits + A Taste of My Fairy Pagan Poetry Tales of London July Art Project











This weekend I have stayed in East Dulwich! I have finished my July art project Fairy Pagan Poetry Tales of London and there are 31 images, one for each day of that wonderful month that we had:) 

I am too planning for New York, I am off September 3rd. It's New York's Fashion Week and I am to shoot backstage for Crash Magazine (which my art project is too for) during the shows, a first for me and I am hugely excited to say the least. Number 1 on my list is Marc Jacobs, OF COURSE.

Too there has been my morning walks listening to Sweden's radio channel P1 and their inspirational summer talks with such amazing Swedes. I have so many to go through, and that I am SO grateful for. Yesterday I listened to the talks of the wonderful Virpi Pahkinen & the inspirational Editor of Sweden's news paper Dagens Nyheter, Peter Wolodarski.

Now I am at my "Second Home:)) get the hint? if not, look closer. But it is called Franklins;)

Outfits of choice has been mainly vintage from Beyond Retro, Screaming Mimis & The Shop together with my flowery printed Burberry flats that I adore.

Yes the crazy indoor image is my house full of dresses & inspirations.

Today I Am A Russian Doll Tale.

xxx
alice solantania saga

& Some Charles Bukowski Thoughts for A Splendid Sunday

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.” -  from Charles Bukowski's Factotum

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Today I Am The Never Ending Story

Hallelujah! Here we go again.

An Anaïs Nin Outfit:

Beyond Retro 30's style tea dress
grandma's gold heart
my aunt's pearl earrings
Prada belt
Screaming Mimis bangles
Office patent leather ballerinas

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." - Anaïs Nin

I could do with another country! My Never Ending Story. I am looking for the world of C.S Lewis Fairy Narnia.

Happy Saturday
alice solantania saga

Friday, August 23, 2013

Today Is To Be Sweetness Playful In A Mischievous Way;)

WHAT?!

Outfit for A Mischievous Sweetness Day

Kensie flower dress
grandma's gold heart
Burberry flats

I am staying in East Dulwich today, the weather is amazing and I am to plan for my New York trip together with finishing my July art project, Fairy Pagan Poetry Tales of London, for Crash Magazine.

Anaïs Nin:

“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman”

To The Faithful Wife;) 

Happy Sunny Sweetness Mischievous Friday To You All
x
alice solantania saga

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Today I Am A Midsummer Night's Fairy Queen! To Quote Shakespeare;)


My lovely Facebook friend Robin shared a quote from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream when I posted my today's outfit on Instagram:

And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear. Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I’ll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon. Over Hill, Over Dale, A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Today's Outfit:
vintage dress from The Shop
grandma's gold heart
bangles from Screaming Mimis
flowery printed flats from Burberry





Today's collage: 
My 365 day project:) I 

call today's Choose Hope & Anything Is Possible (thinking 
of Ohlalala! What Am I Doing NowAgain? OH YES...Following My Dreams)!

See another taste of my 365 day project on a fairy granny gredelin day;0) HERE! 


HAPPY THURSDAY!

with love

alice solantania saga

My Collage:

Most photos are either photographed & styled by me and/ or styled by Linda while collaborating with other lovely photographers/ illustrators. The collage within the collage is created on a day when I was incredibly proud over being Swedish:))) Most photos in this collage are by other artists which I have saved on my iPad from Pinterest & Tumblr.