Monday, March 30, 2015

Meet The Little Princesse Spring

hey beautiful creatures!

something has happened. i am not quite sure why but i am feeling such happiness. it's been growing for a tiny while and today it came on full force. one piece of the puzzle is probably that spring arrived here in london. another is that a few things are falling in to place. and i have too for a while edited my life. and a now is here!

“whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. if i am a princess in rags and tatters, i can be a princess inside. it would be easy to be a princess if i were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.” 

a little princess

such wonders in this world;0)! can i see that kiss again?

it was that kiss that set you free

:))))

today i am the little princesse of spring stealing kisses all day
Absolute Vintage dress
a little princesse outfit

blondie of absolute vintage princesse dress
grandma's gold heart
primark violette hair bands
top shop gold belt
office green as in envy ballerinas

how can one not just SMILE?
Cherry Blossom Tree

Cherry Blossoms

yesterday while browsing so many peoples lovely blogs, i came across this story by bruce weber, as created in 1984:) such beauty!!!
devour
A Flower Girl for Vogue Magazine
image source: heiress flowers

this fashion editorial was created for vogue magazine and the gown featured on the flower girl was created by victor edelstein for another princesse whose name was diana!

i am off to capture beauty with a couple of my film cameras:) i thought maybe i should create a couple of my flower fairies here in dulwich!! so it's sort of like a location scouting day.

i wish you a happiness monday
xxx
alice solantania saga

Saturday, March 28, 2015

A Saturday Outfit & Some R.M Drake Wonders

happy saturday:)

saturday as you may know is my fave day of the week! people are just happier knowing they have 2 full days to just hang out ( and maybe do some house duties). i am right now waiting for my train, on my way to kingston and to a cafe called woodies, near the thames. i am to meet some photograhy enthusiasts:))) we are to converse about all things inspiring! such a perfect way to start the weekend. exploring & learning with others whom share the same passions!

fall deeply into something
indefinable. believe me, it is
a beautiful thing. let it grow
inside you until it becomes you,
and then let it grow some more.

and when the undefinable becomes
the familiar, then i urge you to
keep going, to keep finding,
there will always be more. that
is your role, to keep on experiencing
yourself until you know so much
that it terrifies you.

- r.m drake 

the faerie tales of violette
Beyond Retro vintage dress
a laura ingalls saturday

grandma's gold heart
prada belt
gabor flats

xxx
alice solantania saga


Thursday, March 26, 2015

A Victorian Outfit & Some Gloria & Isaure Magic

hey:)

how are you? how is thursday treating you?

my morning started as usual with my walk. it was not a very pleasant one because it was raining and being ice cold plus my radio app was not behaving and same with the podcast i wanted to listen to. hopefully the rest of the day is to be better. press days are starting to happen and i think i am to go to a couple of them today. hopefully to find wonders:)) then a coffee at the albion might happen!

i am too putting this up on my wall:

this is your life. do what you want and do it often. 
if you don't like something, change it. if you don't like your job, quit. if you don't have enough time, stop watching tv. if you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love. stop over-analysing, life is simple. all emotions are beautiful. when you eat, appreciate every last bite. life is simple. open your heart, mind and arms to new things and people, we are united in our differences. ask the next person you see what their passion is and share your inspiring dream with them. travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself. some opportunities only come once, seize them. life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them, so go out and start creating. 
life is short, live your dream and wear your passion.


Alice Solantania Saga
a victorian outfit

vintage victorian lace blouse & velvet skirt
grandma's gold heart
top shop belt
 wolford stockings
gabor shoes

inspiration (obsession) today is the crazy talented
Isaure Anska

Isaure Anska
 i was researching ophelia and somehow came across these stunning photos. i am in love with isaure and her magic.

&

today's 2nd obsession is 
gloria endres de oliveira

her icon image is created by the lovely lovely sofie olejnik. a while back i was greatly treated by her, go here if you wanna know how:)

tomorrow =  an amazingly beautiful church thanks to a hadassi:)

happy thursday
xxx
alice solantania saga

Monday, March 23, 2015

Diary 267: A Wonderful Strawberry Weekend

hey:)

how are you? how was your weekend? 

my weekend was intriguing & wonderful:) it mainly consisted of a strawberry girl whose name was violette & her travelling to venice;0)!

a friday fairy strawberry breakfast
Fairground and Strawberries

me dressed up as the strawberry girl
Alice Solantania Saga
went to chislehurst and one of its parks
to create
 my strawberry girl self portrait story
Self-portrait by Alice Saga
she was supposed to be the good girl sharing strawberries to the world. but after having plucked these beauties all day she was tired plus starving so in the end she decided to devour them all to herself. gorging loving:)

this creature greeted me after my saturday morning walk:))
The Gardens, London

this day i attended an art class (they call this group love art + tea). it was such a wonderful morning & afternoon. we were supposed to paint this wonderful art work as created by john lovett. it's the beauty of venice.
John Lovett painting

of course i needed to be violette
purple painting

my version of venice & john lovett's painting haha!!!
i love it actually
Venice by Alice Saga

a student whom actually did more of an accurate version of john lovett's painting. i adored the girl creating this! 
Venice

sunday morning was perfection. a clear sunny spring day. one can devour this view then.

the view is from horniman museum & gardens
see london:)?

got dressed in order to meet my new lovely friend laura. we had wine in a pub close to london bridge. thank you lovely for such a cute afternoon.
Vintage Outfit
 vintage dress, belt & bangles together with converses.

i am off to toasted for some wonderful tea (rhubarb mixed with a couple of other tasty thingies), planning my child bride character. i am hugely inspired by coco rosie and their song/ video of the same name. i will too have a think about the next character i am to portray, it's one many many has been inspired by and that is ophelia. 

i wanna end this diary post with this poem by melissa-kelly martin, i came across it on tumblr the other day.

devour this one!!!

with love from ophelia

i haven't seen you
for what seems like an age,
not even a word torn from the
corner of a page
have you scrawled to remind me
that you knew i was here,
alone in the dark
with my mouth full of fear
that you'd never return.

while i've tried to remember the 
sound of your voice
my heart has bled violets
i've had no other choice,
and now you've returned, you don't 
know my face;
your eyes are blank walls
and nobody tells
why all i can see
is my reflection in them;
no recognition
of our skins' intuition -
what is the condition?
i don't understand.

and now i'm in water
surrounded by flowers
whose petals i've cried
over hours and hours.
my heart has grown heavy
and i'm starting to sink,
my hair turns to willow,
my eyes cherry-bloss pink,
returning to flowers 
is all i can think.
from out of my chest
 sprout blue hollyhocks
all round me is silent 
but the sound of a clock
and the roll of the water
 as it circles my face
like translucent lace;
the veil of my watery pall.


xxx
alice solantania saga

Friday, March 20, 2015

Meet Gabriella - The Strawberry Girl

hey:)

i am on my way to create my version of the strawberry girl:)

i wish you all a wondrous friday!
The Strawberry Girl Outfit
a strawberry girl outfit

vintage dress as found at the classic car boot sale
grandma's gold heart & apron
burberry shoes

i went to chislehurst the other day to location scout. found this sunshine beauty where i will try to create my strawberry girl today:) 
Chislehurst

Det är nu som livet är mitt
Jag har fått en stund här på jorden
Och min längtan har fört mig hit
Det jag saknat och det jag fått

- gabriella's sång

the above quote is from a song that is part of kay pollak's movie as it is in heaven (an absolutely amazing movie). mr. pollak has too written a book that i have turned to over and over again (sadly not translated in to english), att välja glädje.

see the beauty of helen sjöholm here.

xxx
alice solantania saga

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Perception of Beauty

it's interesting how experience shapes what one finds beautiful. in 2012 i created this story, the may queen. all the images below were outtakes. i despised the bleeding of the film, it made the work ugly i thought. i was obsessed with my images being perfect. now, 3 years later, a couple of these are my favourites from this series. 

 i have been bleeding. 
and i do not find that ugly.
 in fact i find the journey i have been through to be beautiful.

there was a new beginning in 2012! there is another one happening now:)

this makes me excited:

that you are here -
that life exists & identity;
that the powerful play goes on, 
and 
you may contribute a verse.
- walt whitman, leaves of grass (1892)

the beauty of the may queen by me 
starring vikky ivie 
with adorable help from
mafalda silva 






Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Meet A Bluebelle

hey!

how are you?

in london the sun is fighting through the clouds knowing it is to win:) i decided to have an organising day so that i can create & find wonders for the rest of the week. 

a year ago i was spring:)
 today bluebelle will have to do!
Vintage outfit
a bluebelle outfit

vintage dress
grandma's gold heart
top shop gold belt
burberry shoes

obsession I
pink hair
fernanda hin lin ly
(source)

obsession II


will elaborate!

the one thing that you have
that nobody else have
is you.
your voice, your mind,
your story, your vision.
so write and draw and build
and play and dance
&
live as only you can.

-neil gaiman

xxx
alice solantania saga

( images of fernanda are from the fashion spot)

Monday, March 16, 2015

A Car Boot Sale Vintage Weekend & A Breakfast Strawberry Girl Monday:)

hey beautiful people
Classic Car Boot Sale
i spent my saturday with my love jenny & her wonderful husband andrio at something called the classic car boot sale which was held at the southbank centre here in london. such  a perfection place this was!!! i got myself a mirror mirror on the wall perfection, butterfly dress, some sunshine plates & a flower of the fairies tale by cicely mary barker:) jenny too found some lovely thingies for whatever she is to create next!! afterwards we went for some wine.

see my dress:)))??? it's full of butterflies! when wearing my butterflies i am to pair it with my valentino satin & lace blouse (as seen in the image above). yes i need that vogue. see the beautiful violette eyes? 

how i feel at the moment thank goodness:

then, she began to breathe,
and live, and every moment
took her to a place where
goodbyes were hard to come
by. she was in love, but not
in love with someone or 
something, she was in love
with her life. and for the 
first time, in a long time,
everything was inspiring.


i am madly in love with the works of r.m. drake. soon there will be a book to devour by this beautiful person, this one is to be mine!

today i met someone adorable! such a talent:) her name is hadassi and is one of the wonders of the  world wide women collective. we met at the cute breakfast club in hoxton whom has this wall paper in its powder room:)
Strawberry girl
which happens to be a character i am to portray....but in quite or very much so, different way.

the strawberry girl
(see?)

much love
alice solantania saga

Friday, March 13, 2015

A Day For Play Like A Nymph Fairy Midsummer Night's Dream Girl

 hey:)))

a good sign of me feeling better (probably because hello sun in my face is here) is when i start playing with my outfits!!! that day has arrived!
A school girl vintage outfit
 hallelujah;0)!!!!
Alice Saga

An Outfit

Alice Solantania Saga
Alice Solantania Saga

Alice Solantania Saga
a day for play the school girl kind of way

vintage school girl dress
primark glasses & hairbands
åhlens  faux diamond earrings
office green as in envy ballerinas
converse (in some images)

on my way:

top shop coat
balenciaga sunnies
alexander mcqueen skull scarf

yes i am scanning scanning & am doing some more scanning. this is an image from my a midsummer night's dream story, i have played with photoshop on top of my diana image.
A To Be Adored Dress
what you think?

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.” 

- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

reflections on life & a tip on what to read:

du och jag lever vår berättelse. det är om din livsvandring du skall berätta. livet är guds kärleksgåva till dig. när du och jag ibland kan få förstå våra liv i backspegeln, kan det vara lätt att hänga upp sig på petitesser - men låt inget/n peta sönder eller ta din berättelse ifrån dig. skriv ner hur livsväven har kommit samman, ja vävts ihop.

- michael persson, head priest of london's swedish church

a book to read if you are swedish is dag hammarskjöld's vägmärken. it's just so wonderfully written. if you do not know swedish it has been translated to english  in my opinion not as good though) and it is called markings (even the name does not reflect the swedish title...!!)

vägen valde dig
dag hammarskjöld

now

 = 

time for play:)

much love
xxx
alice solantania saga

Thursday, March 12, 2015

My Polaroid Portfolio: Garden Evil

garden evil
Jessie Dunne

Alice Solantania Saga Polaroid Portfolio

Jessie Dunne

Vikky Ivie wearing Prada

Kathleen O'Brien wears To Be Adored

Vikky Ivie wears Marc Jacobs

as you know, i am scanning my archive of prints. i've just now finished scanning my polaroid portfolio:) here's a tiny taste of what's in it. both the photography & styling is created by me.

i call my book
:
 garden evil

xxx

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

A Pagan Poetry Sunshine Tuesday

hey:)

happy tuesday!

i am on my way to petts wood, fingers crossed i will find the final location for my tuvstarr tale! london is sunshine today:)

i am handing myself over
i am handing myself over
i am handing myself over
Meadham Kirchhoff for Top Shop babydoll dress

A lolita outfit and some roses
a lolita outfit

meadham kirchhoff for top shop babydoll dress with violette lace trim
antique cross necklace
wolford stockings
burberry shoes


“nothing is original. steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. 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 non-existent. and don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. in any case, always remember what jean-luc godard said: “it’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."


Jessie Dunne
pagan poetry as photographed & styled by me for crash magazine in 2012. i was heavily inspired by some lines in björk's song pagan poetry:

this time
she loves him, she loves him
i'm gonna keep it to myself
she loves him, she loves him
she loves him, she loves him
this time
i'm gonna keep me all to myself
she loves him, she loves him
and he makes me want to hand myself over
she loves him, she loves him
she loves him, she loves him
and he makes me want to hand myself over


- björk's pagan poetry

during this shoot / time period i was about to hand myself over to a matthew....kept repeating i am handing myself over i am handing myself over. i ended up keeping it to myself.

xxx
alice



Monday, March 09, 2015

Diary 266: An Alice Solantania Saga Weekend in East Dulwich

"why i wake early
hello, sun in my face.
hello, you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety-

best preacher that ever was,
dear start, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light-
good morning, good morning, good morning.

watch, now, how i start the day
in happiness, in kindness."


roses

Wells Park

sydenham hill wood (also called dulwich wood)
Woods

a cuteness squirrel eating inside peckham rye common
Squirrel beauty

the gardens mischievousness :)))
adore
A black cat

the 12th of may i am on my way to new york!
so
this made me happy saturday morning:)
airplane and sky beauty

organic duck eggs 
Duck Eggs

free range organic eggs

the wonders of jessie makes
Date & Walnut Cake

Blueberry Cake

work table

hello sun in my face:)))

how are you? how was your weekend?

 we here in london are about to get spring. and it makes all the difference. i have had 2 beautiful morning walks with filip & fredrik (bring a drink hahaha), had such a sunshine saturday so i devoured our local saturday market. i did not plan to buy eggs but this happened, even duck eggs:))) i met jessie of jessie makes, her smile is = the most adorable. then i hung out at the french house & toast dulwich. it basically sums it all up. now i am ready for a new week of wonders.

my days, at the moment, are filled with scanning original prints & playing with photoshop! too i am adoring exploring apps both for photography & film:)))
alice solantania saga beauty
 of course i am;0)!
Queen Victoria Memorial
turned my photo in to an oil on canvas painting:) 

 i backed up my old phone and all its photos and found this test shoot (first time shooting in a studio) of mine.  this girl was wonderful. as was her mom whom was with us. recognise the dress?
playing with photoshop!!!
Fashion portrait

as you may know, my aunt gave me a scanner:)

Polaroid by Alice Solantania Saga
this is kathleen o'brien! the star of my to be adored shoot. she is wearing a dress of the same name and lanvin heels.

here she is in a dress from beyond retro with same shoes
Polaroid by Alice Solantania Saga

here's a tiny video:) see me? me with photography books at toast dulwich! a lovely place to drink tea in (or to devour some champagne).



it's impossible,
said pride.
it's risky,
said experience.
it's pointless,
said reason.
give it a try,
whispered the heart.

always

i am off to pick up a passion planner:)
xxx
alice solantania saga