Thursday, January 29, 2015

Today I Need A Grandma

i guess i'll have to be that one myself;0)!

meet violette the grandmother
Independent Kostym vintage dress

grandma outfit

independent kostym grandma flowery printed dress
antique cross necklace
wolford violette stockings
burberry flats

today i woke up after for once having slept through the whole night:) such energy my walk had because of that. me with sam (the slayer haha) in the woods. came home & started setting up my new scanner (thanks aunt mom and step father). this is something i was meaning to do a few weeks ago but technical things always scares me. never too late as they say, at least with matters like these.

something that is on my mind is the fact that i need to have more people around me on a daily basis, inspiring ones! the ones who are based here in london. i am so grateful for all those loves around the world i have found on the internet (and whom inspires me on a daily basis via blogs, facebook & instagram), but it would be lovely to spend "real" time with some like them here in london. a goal of mine is to find you:)))

now is at my wonderful place, the albion. filter coffee with soy milk = perfection. i am to continue working on a schedule for my daily life, one that is more productive or shall i say more creative. to live with more intent. create beauty makes me happy.

i am obsessed by osho. his thoughts on life are sheer brilliance.
he is another grandfather of mine as of now.

“Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.” 

- osho

someone's work table;0)!!!
The Albion Cafe
clean slate it was then...well not now:)
xxx
alice solantania saga

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

A Sugar & Spice Tuesday To Dream Create Magic

hey:)

just about to have some tea at toast & plan my daily routine that i am to have from february 14th to the 13th of 2016! then it's all art inc.

my corpse bride character will have to happen next week instead because i need my violette roses which i know i am to find at columbia street flower market on sunday. this is a place of wonder, if you have not been here i highly recommend devouring:) every sunday in fact! 

when i was looking through my blog for some images from the times i've been to to this flower market, i found this quote in one of my posts:))) jim jarmusch perfection of it's just a fairy tale!

"devour old films, new films,
music, books, paintings,
photographs, poems, dreams,
random conversations,
architecture, bridges,
street signs, trees, clouds,
bodies of water, light
and shadows. select only
things to steal from that
speak directly to your soul.
if you do this, your work
(and theft) will be authentic.
authenticity is invaluable;
originality is nonexistent."

i am devouring you jim;0)!!!

APC dress
 a 60's waif outfit 

apc dress
top shop lace top worn beneath
antique cross necklace
gabor balleirnas

A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
what you can do & dream
 you can begin!

from your sugar & spice girl
alice solantania saga


Sunday, January 25, 2015

A Princesse Tuvstarr & The Corpse Bride

Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga
she is exhausted. sadness has overtaking her. this struggle was not meant to happen. real life was to be an adventure full of life & stories. instead the world has torn her apart, losing her heart and about to get spell bound. for the rest of her life.

the 9th part of my princesse from the dream castle tale.

the last section of my story is to happen when i find the perfect river!

here is a tiny film i created with the super 8 mm app while being on my way to yesterday's location. talking myself into the character.
sorry for the constant runny nose (i am not crying...)!
i have yet to learn how to edit a film:) hallelujah.

next character is the corpse bride which is to happen next week!
Collage by Alice Solantania Saga
poses to the left & movie inspirations to the right.

if i touch a burning candle,  i can feel no pain. in the ice or in the sun, it's all the same. yet i feel my heart is aching. though it does not beat, it's breaking. and the pain here that i feel, try and tell me it's not real. i know that i am dead, yet it seems that i still have some tears to shed.

-the corpse bride, tim burton

i worked on my corpse bride after yesterday's tuvstarr shoot at toasted
Corpse Bride Notes

i wish you a wonderful creative sunday!
love
alice solantania saga

(Images in my collage 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!)

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Today Is Hope

hey:)

how are you all? i hope you are having a wonderful start of our weekend. i've just come back from the woods having created the next to last part of my tuvstarr tale. i'm having a tea at toasted here in dulwich while blogging. on my way to today's location i created a tiny super 8 film, maybe i'll show you tomorrow. my princesse is now exhausted and am about to loose all hope before getting spellbound, she is loosing her heart. 

today then = hope

reflecting on this today:

sadness gives depth. happiness gives height. sadness gives roots. happiness gives branches. happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. the bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. in fact, it is always in proportion. that's its balance.

- osho

such wisdom

Meadham Kirchhoff for Top Shop
 a sweetness outfit

meadham kirchhoff for top shop baby doll dress
antique cross necklace
wolford violet stockings
burberry shoes

i created this collage a while back when i needed 
beautiful hope
Collage by Alice Solantania Saga
today is hope

i wish you all a wonderful saturday
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!)

Thursday, January 22, 2015

A World Wide Women Wednesday in London

my wednesday morning was spent here as usual with games of thrones:) i was excited because today i was to preview world wide women's exhibiton "ritual" at grace belgravia!
Cox Walk in Dulwich

i had some of my work printed out & put my information on the back in case i might meet someone to stay in touch with!
Self Portraits by Alice Solantania Saga

i dressed up:)
Marc Jacobs dress
this is one of my absolute fave dresses:) it's by marc jacobs! i wore a little velvet black cardie/ jacket by cacharel to it.

i went to victoria station to have a look at this book binding store full of wonderful papers and such. i thought it was to take a little longer than it did so i ended up at a starbucks in belgravia to kill some time! i decided to plan my 2015 and read a new magazine i found called spleen factory.
Starbucks

then i went to a place i had googled! i love trying new places and i have to say that i loved this one. the star tavern. great wifi & beautiful interior. i had the whole upstairs for my self:))) downstairs was packed with after work cute boys/ men.
British pub in Belgravia, London

see me?
The Star Tavern

at 6.30 i went to the exhibition! i adore the artists that forms the collective of world wide women, the founder is the talented anouska beckwitch whom too of course is one of its artists.

the iphone photos below does not make the works justice. if you can, go devour these beautiful fine art photography prints for yourself.

 perfection by anouska. 
"do not be lonely"
Do Not Be Lonely

works by amanda charchian (left & top right) & aëla labbé.
 i am in love with it all. 
Fine Art Photography by Amanda Charcian & Aëla Labbé

this is a collective of female artists i'd love to join.

ritual

"an homage to that which is lost but not forgotten, a prayer to that which is desired but not realized. ritual promises to answer endless questions and offers escape from an unfulfilled reality. it is an act of veneration for the bird that has flown away, and for the hope of its return."


world wide women's exhibition, ritual, is open until the 24th of february at grace belgravia. 

love 
alice solantania saga

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

BE LOVE

hey lovely creatures:)

today we in london are having a sunshine day! i have just finished a very cold walk yet an adventure one full of sansa stark of games of thrones & i am now out the door to return the last of clothing from mine and eleanor's rookie shoot. then i am to devour central london. 

found this wonderful quote & wanted to share:

allow the subtle
things to be
glorious. flip fear
into courage.
sweetly anticipate
nothing in
particular. be
rocked and riveted
by the "ordinary".
think poetically.
look for the beauty. 
create magic.
be love.


this above inspiration got me thinking of another wonder:)

i promise
if you keep
searching
for everything
beatiful
in this world

you will 
eventually
become it.

Beyond Retro blouse & a Top Shop skirt with a Malene Birger belt
outfit

beyond retro prairie blouse
top shop skirt
antique cross necklace
office ballerinas

&

some mischievousness cuteness for you:)
collage

be love
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!)

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Behind The Scenes of Mine & Eleanor Hardwick's Editorial for Rookie Magazine

eleanor hardwick and Linda Portman fashion editorial behind the scenes by alice solantania saga
we had a wonderful day shooting for rookie magazine!!!

eleanor is such a humble kind wonderful photographer to work with. thank you for today!!! i too got to know 3 other lovely girls:) today's models and today's hair & make up perfection talent. christina, mona & tallulah are their names. it's so nice to concentrate on only the styling once in a while!  also to collaborate with others is wonderful, to get other ideas and perspectives. that is brilliance for me.

clockwise from top left: 

eleanor in a tba mushroom dress (one that i myself happens to own) capturing beauty. the girls mona & tallulah dressed up in vintage. mona and that cutie bird, she's wearing my prada dress. eleanor in action with the pre-raphaelite looking tallulah:)

today's thought

stay close 
to anything
that makes
 you glad you
are alive

se you tomorrow beautiful creatures
xxx
alice solantania saga


Friday, January 16, 2015

An Alice Solantania Saga Friday

i have had such a day:)
Roses from Liberty London, Beyond Retro dresses & Alice Solantania Saga's fine art photography

this morning was perfect! i got up real early as i love to do & had some hilarious time with morrongänget mix megapol (a swedish radio show) before having adventures with games of thrones. that walk made me having 15 minutes to get ready to catch my train....!!! hallelujah. little did i know what was awaiting. at london bridge they are doing major works and my platform that i needed to take me to charing cross no longer exists. so another plan to take me where i needed to go had to happen quickly. yes i was late to my first appointment. in town i borrowed some more clothes for mine & eleanor's rookie shoot (see our first story we created here). then i ended up at liberty to devour roses and then i headed to selfridges to buy my fave apples (i know...sounds weird but i just love these specific ones and when i am close by i always go to buy them). i came home and my fairy books had arrived plus my prints i ordered a little while back of my work:)))

image (clockwise from top left): 

roses perfection from liberty. some dresses for the sunday shoot that might be used:) (pink & green dresses from beyond retro & the other is my own, by prada). my new fairy drawing books together with my roses i bought for my heart is refusing me self portrait. some of my work which i had ordered to be printed out arrived today!

i wanna repeat this:

"i am amazing. i feel f-ing beautiful, i'm capable, and inspiring, i am powerful. i love my life, my body, my mind, and my innocence. i love who i am, where i am, and where i am going. i am happy to be me."

love 
alice solantania saga


Thursday, January 15, 2015

A Victorian Outfit To Prepp

happy thursday
Absolute Vintage Dress
outfit

absolute vintage victorian dress
antique cross necklace
converse

beautiful blow dry by apprentice corinne:))

i am prepping for a shoot that is to happen this coming sunday! mine & eleanor's for rookie magazine. today beyond retro is to happen and tomorrow there is to be some other places. on days like these i wanna feel comfortable but still look cute presentable! today it meant my off white with lace victorian dress with converse:)


now it's time to do this:

"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."


see you tomorrow
xxx
alice solantania saga

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Although I Have Made Up My Mind; My Heart Is Refusing Me

Fine art self-portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

Fine art self-portrait by Alice Solantania Saga
"i wanna leave but i'm lost
so now i can't break away
although i have made up my mind
my heart is refusing me"


please dear god in the heavens have mercy upon my soul

one can maybe not believe this with today's blog opening but i have had a really good day. i had a lovely morning walk (though ICE COLD) with book 4 of games of thrones:) then i had to rush home since i was to get my hair done by one of myla & davis apprentices, a wonderful corinne:)) now my blonde is perfection shiny & straight. thank you corinne (join her facebook group here). afterwards i continued to prepp for a shoot i am to style with the wonderful eleanor hardwick for the best place online which is tavi gevinson's rookie. after having spent some time on requesting clothing i decided to transfer into tuvstarr. got myself back to the woods to create the tale which is getting near to the end. she is soon to have nothing left. she is to be spellbound for eternity cause she lost her heart! came back home to see if i got some answers from pr people and i had which i am to continue with now.

much love & see you tomorrow 
xxx
alice saga

Sunday, January 11, 2015

A Gredelin Gräddnos Sunday

she danced twirled dawn away 
while her mind was in the heavens
 praying for forgiveness & mercy

1-2-3

i meant to create another portrait of this character outside today, but it was so cold and windy. too this dress is really difficult to put on (or am i just lazy?)! so on my way to the bus which was to take me to this church i was to use as a back drop i passed by the lovely pub east dulwich tavern (where i used to go all the time actually), which i know have an upstairs that is for special rented events. i decided to ask if it would be ok to lend it for half an hour and it was a yes:)) thank you doug!

this is just a taste. i have so many. i would too love to learn how to cut myself out of the picture in order to put it into another background. i have a few wonderful ones where i am sitting down on the floor and i know where i would wanna put her:) in a timotej setting (will explain another day, but for you swedes....you might know what i mean!?).

if the weather  permits i will do another one outside tomorrow close to my house so that i can dress in my home. then i will have to return my gredelin perfection dress to its home.

see you tomorrow beautiful creatures.
xxx
alice solantania saga

Friday, January 09, 2015

Meet Gredelin - The Ghost!

meet the ghost of east dulwich
A Vintage Beyond Retro Dress
outfit

gabor shoes

there is a time for
departure even when there's
no certain place to go


backwards or forwards? upside down inside out!
Self-portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

a tiny taste of my gredelin whom seems to be more of a ghost than a milk maid. sometimes one just needs to go with the flow.

my friday started with a morning walk, i am still not feeling well so created a shorter one. it was wonderful though because i finally got a hold of games of thrones book 4:))) so excited. came home, got dressed and took my outfit photos before transforming into gredelin. that dress is such a wonder, just so much fabric to handle when the wind is blowing...hallelujah. i am to create more of her either tomorrow or sunday if the weather behaves.

i don't want realism. i want magic! yes, yes, magic! i try to give that to people. i misrepresent things to them. i don't tell the truth, i tell what ought to be the truth. and if that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!


one of my all time fave plays that is, a streetcar named desire!

happy friday
xxx
alice solantania saga

Thursday, January 08, 2015

Are You Looking At Me?

;0))!

this is the first self portrait i ever created. the very first click after having had tested the light, it's the 9th of april 2014. this dress my stepmom gave to me a few years back, it's from the 70's. 

the cherry blossom girl 

part 1

the lovely cherry blossoms! this specific tree is to be found in the park of peckham rye, to start bloom again late march:)

i was sick yesterday and am still not feeling well so have been unable to create my gredelin! it has been raining non stop so it would have been impossible anyways. the met app is telling me now that it's to be good weather tomorrow, saturday & sunday!! please please please make this true:) now i am to do some research & image collecting so that i can create a collage for this character i need creating: gredelin - the milk maid!


location scouting:)

today's inspiration


who created this image? i love it!

ghost magic

what's on my mind

:

what i want is to be needed. what i need is to be indispensable to somebody. who i need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. somebody addicted to me. a mutual addiction.

- chuck palahniuk, choke

a constant!

love
alice solantania saga

Tuesday, January 06, 2015

A Prepp Day for my Milk Maid - Greddelin

 hey:)

i am starting to panic;0)!

 well not really, but i do have this character to create, i have hired this costume from the national theatre hire and it's mine for one week. it's gonna rain almost every single day. i have no idea where to shoot. to be honest, i don't really know who she is, my character that is. only that in my mind she is the milk maid - gredelin:) from the 1700's. or maybe a model from a rembrandt painting? 

oh and yes, the dress is too big and i don't know how to put that waitress cap on or what i call my milk maid head piece:)

it will all be fine, right? ohlalala!!!

see my beauties? too see my tuvstarr crown?
Nineteenth Century Pink Silk Over Dress and a Stiff Gauze Waitress Cap

my rail to the left & some theater peoples rail to the right:)
Nineteenth Century  Silk Over Dresses

i adore this place!

tomorrow morning i have to do more location scouting before returning home to hopefully be able to transform in to my milk maid:) tomorrow is what i think the only day when it is not raining, it is to be overcast and that would be perfection lighting. i will too think of some inside alternatives for another day, i'd love to just have a wall and make a portrait.

wish me gredelin luck beautiful creatures
xxx
alice solantania saga

Monday, January 05, 2015

My 2014: Fashion Appointments, Fashion Editorials, Fine Art Photography & Some Liberty London Roses:)

at least according to my instagram account:)

through this site, iqonsquare i created this little video with the 5 images that was my most popular from 2014. i am so glad that one of my self portraits became the number 1:)

countdown

5
the year of 2014 is to be remembered as violette's. i created a post about it which one can view here. those roses are from liberty.

violet roses

4 
i went to loads of press day appointments. part one of my spring 15 faves can be seen here. i did love this butterfly by tatty devine:)

Tatty Devine

3
i styled a story for crash magazine's fall 14 issue. i named it "it's just a fairy tale". the lovely eleanor hardwick was the photographer and brogan loftus was the beauty wearing the clothing. see the whole story here.

Brogan Loftus
 wearing a carven dress & chanel camelia ring.
Brogan Loftus wears a Meadham Kirchhoff outfit
meadham kirchhoff lace perfection.

2
as i said earlier, i did go to tons of press days. i adore the works of the designer vivetta. this is a dress from her spring 2015 collection. flora heaven. see part 2 of my faves from spring 2015 here.

Vivetta

Vivetta

1
my cherry blossom self portrait:) one can view some images from my cherry blossom scouting this past april here.  one can view some self portraits before i altered the colors, here. one can look how my images looks like after i have worked on them here:) 

 i created all my cherry blossom girl self-portrait one week in late march when we had such glorious sunshine weather:)

The Cherry Blossom Girl by Alice Solantania Saga

The Cherry Blossom Girl by Alice Solantania Saga
 my number one most popular:))
The Cherry Blossom Girl by Alice Solantania Saga

while searching through my blog for these images above, i found this quote from my diary 243 post.

"i am amazing. i feel f-ing beautiful, i'm capable, and inspiring, i am powerful. i love my life, my body, my mind, and my innocence. i love who i am, where i am, and where i am going. i am happy to be me."

we are amazing. we are f-ing beautiful. we are powerful!

xxx
alice solantania saga

Sunday, January 04, 2015

Today I Am Tuvstarr Tant Grön!

game on;0)!

i hope you had a lovely start of 2015? i decided to take some blogging time off in order to plan this new year of ours and too to focus on tuvstarr. i too have to think about the next character i am to start  creating tomorrow. i am returning the tuvstarr crown to the national theatre hire and am to rent a gredelin period dress and a milkmaid headpiece:)) not sure what this character is to be....hallelujah! i have 7 days to figure her out and create her.

meet tant grön
A Vintage Dress from Soulrust on Etsy

A vintage dress from etsy and its soulrust shop
a fairy outfit

my dear dress is from a wonderful etsy shop called soulrust
antique cross necklace
office ballerinas

in the spring i am to create all the flower fairies:) this dress one of my flower fairies is to wear:))

today i created part 7 of my tuvstarr tale. it was ice cold and so many people who took a sunday walk in the woods came up to talk to me which made the process take a lot longer. i loved this though since i hope to meet more people that one day might become friends:)  for that reason only, being ice cold was wonderful haha. 

this is a taste of what i created on new years day. what do you think?
A Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga in Dulwich Woods
my heart is refusing me

"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"

xxx
alice solantania saga