Sunday, May 31, 2015

A Flower Faerie Cheeky Outtake:)

jag älskar dig mamma!

it's mother's day in sweden so needed to start this post by saying that i love her:))) very very much! puss o kram till dig från london! hoppas du har en fin dag.

after yesterday's shoot i played with picmonkey! this image is an outtake (meaning i will probably not use it on my fine art photography to come site), just so you know. i just needed one to play with since my self portraits is also to learn more magic in photoshop & sites like monkey:) not sure if it uploads right here on blogspot?! hopefully i will soon be blogging on my own platform where the images comes out beautifully. as you can see.....i had (much) fun last night with stickers, filters and things! 

my faeries are full of joy

i leave you with some anaïs nin:

i always endowed madness
with a sacred, poetic value,
a mystical value. it seemed
to me to be a denial of
ordinary life, an effort to
transcend it, expand, to go
far before the limitations of
the human condition.

diaries of anaïs nin 
volume 1 1931-1934

transcend, expand & create poetry

i wish you a beautiful sunday
xxx
alice solantania saga

(quote found on pinterest)

Saturday, May 30, 2015

A Lucile Faerie Sprite Ballerina Nymph Strawberry Saturday

hey beautiful creatures

i created flower faerie 6 today:) it was lovely! created it in front of a lovely tree called variegata wich had blooming rhododendron behind it:) there was too an audience haha. hallelujah! sometimes fun & sometimes not that fun. usually it can be lovely though because one tends to meet such lovely human beings....for ex. this mom with her 2 daughters came up to me afterwards when i was having a little break in the orangery to ask what i had been doing because the little girls loved what they had seen:)) you should have seen these adorable human creatures:) so thanks dear god in the heavens for that made my day. i am too happy with what i created  today, so this might have made the day too!!!

these were my inspirations for poses:) and also for a theme i am to develop which i will talk about later. i need to go out and devour the sunshine here in dulwich:)

ballerinas

i am deeply loved,
divinely appointed,
abundantly equipped, and
profoundly cherished by
god. no enemy plan,
scheme, or obstacle can
keep me from god's
highest and best will for
me. as i follow the voice
of my saviour, i see the
invisible, accomplish the 
impossible, and love the
unlovable. i am a living-
breathing miracle because
jesus christ lives in me!
amen.




we are all living breathing miracles
never forget 


so came home 
&
 changed outfit! 
 minus a couple of things
but the dress is happening!

now
=
dulwich

remember her?
Alice Solantania Saga
the strawberry girl:)

xxx
alice solantania saga


(all 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!)

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

See You Soon Again Wonderfully Lovely New York!

hey:)

this is my last day in new york! boarding the plane 6.30 pm today only to be back in london am tmrw. these past 2 weeks has been the best i have had in years. i truly belong here. not only is this city amazing it too consists of some of my dearest loveliest closest friends & i have missed these creatures so much. for 2 weeks i have spent every single day with someone dear:))) i was scared that i would miss my dear late friend nils horner tremendously ( we shared an apartment for 5 years on the upper west side and became one of my closest ones), but instead what happened was that my brain focused on the fact that because of this wonderful place, he became part of my life and that has been & is a huge blessing. so there was almost no sadness over him not being here or at least somewhere on our planet. while i am at it i want to send love to his sister ingrid. anyways there has been loads of wine, 2 picnics, coney island, jersey & long long walks all over manhattan, american television with whole foods dinner at the jane every single night:) my home for a second time around. i love the jane:))))  this morning i created a last morning walk along the hudson river to say good bye to the statue of liberty. this image below is last photo i took from my most dearest wonderful birthday trip:) thanks to my mom and aunt! i love you both so much!

thanks all whom took the time to see me. you guys have put so many sunshine smiles to my face!!!

bye new york 
see you soon
Hudson River, New York

sometimes the
bad things that happen
in our lives put
us directly on the path
to the best
things that will ever
happen to us.


see you in london:)
xxx
alice solantania saga

Sunday, May 24, 2015

A Beautiful Saturday in Montclair, New Jersey

i had such a brilliant sunshine saturday with my dear friend lily:) she invited me to come visit her in new jersey! for us to have a cute day in montclair devouring antique/ vintage shops before having a picnic at a beautiful garden full of flowers!i found some treasures:) that doll is now mine! i too bought some vintage collage sheets full of cats & flowers and invested in 2 books:) one about colette and one full of painted ballerinas. such beauty!!! lily had created the most delicious chicken salad which is the best one i've ever tasted!!! chicken, grapes, apples, dill, red garlic with some mayo....hallelujah! lily did i forget any ingredient? i am to create this one myself. lily to brought some wonderfully illustrated vintage flower guides. after a long cute conversation we started taking pictures of each other. i have such beautiful images of her.  will show you soon:)

thank you lovely lily for my saturday you treated me to!!!
dolls, ballerinas & flowery music

the doll & vintage sheets with flowers & cats are from a wonderland store called parcel! the ballerina & music sheet are from a vintage books & record store, montclair book center.

parcel perfection:)
Vintage Typewriter

lily at parcel
Parcel Vintage Store

these 2 books are now mine:) from the montclair book center!
colette

that book...!!! neeeeed:)
A Flower Guide

lily will scan this! will show properly then! 
polaroid portraits

can't wait to share my image of lily in her to be adored dress (a dress i happen to own too, funny right?) in front of beautiful pink flowers at this perfection brilliant park.

i had the best day ever
&
feel so grateful

off to see my friend amanda now. she invited me to join her for her birthday picnic. we are to devour 25 degrees. love that!!!

wish you a sunshine sunday
alice solantania saga

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

A Happiness Tuesday In New York

New York
i had such a beautiful tuesday:)

first of course some morning walk magic. then home to make myself ready to meet my beautiful friend polina barskaya, we were to have lunch at buvette in the west village, devoured a delicious beetroot with almonds & cream dish. then we browsed some cute stores like jil stuart & apc. polina is such a wonderful artist, some portraits she has created of me can be viewed here. i too stopped by the bookstore with the best selection of photography & fashion books i have  ever seen, bookmarc! such inspirations. later afternoon i ended up at mother's ruin where i did some reading before i met up with my friend joseph. we were to go to this event at the boutique kirna zabete in soho. lots of champagne & wonderful people i met there:)))

went home to devour dinner while watching some television. 

top image (clockwise):

the hudson river magic. wonderful jam's at murray's cheese on bleecker street. the beauty of polina, we are about to have lunch at buvette. a beautiful block off bleecker street.


photography books

T New York Times Style Magazine

Kirna Zabete

my friend joseph to the right & a lovely boy i met yesterday whom i forgot the name of. we had such fun  with loads of luxury champagne at kirna zabete.
handsome boys with champagne

today i am off to coney island & then meet my dear dear dear friend camilla at laduree on west broadway:)))

xxx
alice solantania saga

Sunday, May 17, 2015

An Alice Solantania Saga Saturday In New York

i love new york

i had the best saturday. started with a morning walk along the river before heading home to get myself cuteness ready to meet my new friend lisa:) we had plans to meet at hiroko's place in the west village. after a delicious curry we headed towards a cat parlour haha. we ended our day to devour some candy cute lolita dresses at a shop called baby, the stars shine bright. lisa thank you for our saturday!!! xxx

now
 = 

sunday 

which means my church
redeemer 

the wonders of 
timothy keller
:))
New York
clocwise from top left:

an i love new york cat painting at the meow cat parlour:). vanilla glazed doughnuts at dean & deluca on broadway/ prince street. pastel cuteness dresses at baby, the stars shine bright. perfection at the economy candy store.

cat
wonders at the meow parlour

Hiroko's Place


Alice Solantania Saga
me having a happiness moment at schillers
went here after i had parted with lisa. they always have the latest issues of vogue, elle, allure and such magazines to devour...so that i did. this with my gratefulness thoughts.
love love love their cheap white so had 2 glasses.

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

- unknown

xxx
alice solantania saga

Friday, May 15, 2015

I AM IN NEW YORK:)

hey:)

i am in new york and i am beyond happiness. my first two day's i have been on an adventure, just devouring the city. the first day i met my love peter whom i view as one of my closest friends. yesterday i met my dear friend amanda!  i had forgotten how much i have been missing this perfection person. she brought me to this place where she works, the metropolitan building. they rent out this beautiful place for various fashion shoots, tv & film projects. i had so much fun! 

today i will walk around east village & soho. then i am to meet one of my most dearest friends, timothy nazzaro. can't wait! it's been 2 years.

seize this very minute;
what you can do, or dream
you can, begin it;
boldness has genius, power
&
magic in it.


take care of your friday beautiful creatures

Alice Solantania Saga & Amanda Bruns
 see us?
i mean me & amanda:)
 i am so happy here!
Metropolitan Building in New York
amanda working "really" hard hahaha in her office. that office:)))!!!! i am in dear envy. 

Alice Solantania Saga
clockwise from top left:

me in my room at the jane hotel. devouring american vogue and some wine. this is a wonderful place, it's called frank and it's where i devoured wine & vogue. washington square...these two were amazingly wonderfully talented.

for the past couple of day's i have created my morning walk along the hudson river to devour the statue of liberty:)
Statue of Liberty

i wish you a beautiful thursday
xxx
alice solantania saga

Monday, May 11, 2015

To Make Living Itself An Art, That Is The Goal

whoever uses
the spirit
that is in him
creatively
is an artist.
to make
living itself
an art,
that is the 
goal.


hey:)

got my scanner back finally. not 100 perfect! will see what i'll do about this. anyways, i scanned some polaroids i have taken lately on my location scouting days. i think the creamy colors are wonderfully perfect:) today we have 20 degrees here in london so i am about to run out to devour sunshine and live my life like a painting. 

the isabella plantation
Isabella Plantation

the beauty of dulwich
Cherry Blossom tree

Cherry Blossoms

A polaroid of Dulwich cherry blossoms

the opening of dulwich woods in the spring
Dulwich Wood

Alice Saga

Alice Solantania Saga
wore this when meeting my love jenny at the columbia road flower market:) had a splendid wonderful time with 2 glasses of wine to finish it off:)

victorian dress from a vintage fair in new york
antique cross necklace from an antique shop on madison avenue
office ballerinas

peonies perfection at the market:)
Pink Peonies

tomorrow i will be here:)))
New York
from my trip in 2013! it's when my obsession for the mother of the dragon started:)) this collage i created september 5th of 2013

one reason i was here in 13 was because i covered some shows backstage for crash magazine, you can see some images here.

happy sunshine monday to you all
xxx
alice solantania saga

Friday, May 08, 2015

You Don't Have A Life; You Are Life!

hey:)

it's been such a friday. woke up, got some soy milk to create a soy latte while packing & putting some glitter to my face. of course got dressed in my sunshine dress...then off to kew gardens it was. i did have a specific location in mind but decided to try this other place first that i ran in to the other day. this place proved magic. so happy i stayed open instead of just going with my plan. treated myself to this wonderful rooibos rhubarb sweet tea at one of this gardens restaurants:) while devouring all the happy people surrounding me. 

we are life. play with that!
&
smile 

You Are Life

you are not separate from the whole. 
you are one with the sun, the earth, the air. 
you don't have a life. 
you are life.


you are life

today's outfit for the sunshine faerie
Alice Solantania Saga

yesterday's violette bluebell faerie:)
Alice Solantania Saga

played with photoshop & picmonkey after today's flower sunshine flower faerie:) not sure if they are uploading up properly here on blogspot!? 
Alice Solantania Saga

Alice Solantania Saga

happy friday beautiful creatures
 love
alice solantania saga

(Images that are not by me 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!)

Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Meet The Bluebell Faerie

alice solantania saga
monday morning i went to kew gardens to create 2 flower faeries. this outfit/ location was the bluebell one:) this location was simply put magic. and i devoured it.

my process is usually that of going through my first 10 images to choose one i can play around with in photoshop and programs like picmonkey, in order to learn the magic of manipulation:) the whole set of photos i usually put to rest so that i can be more objective in my choosing. it's easy to focus on all the bad things, in particular in how one looks. when letting it rest, one is usually kinder and can make somewhat more of an objective decision. so from my experience this works.

someone helped me along with inspiration:)

i have a dear new friend, lisa of the beautifully stunning blog falling through a field,  whom send me this beautiful poem by emily brontë the other day when she knew i was about to create this faerie:) thank you lovely you:) gifts like these makes my days!!!

the bluebell

the bluebell is the sweetest flower
that waves in summer air;
its blossoms have the mightiest power
to soothe my spirit's care


kew gardens at the moment is magic

devour this:
rhododendron flowers
no filters
just pure magic

xxx
alice solantania saga

Monday, May 04, 2015

A Sugar Plum Faerie Candy Tale

morning:)

on my way to create faerie 3:) just had my make up done and put outfit 1 on, done my packing and am now finishing this blog post i started yesterday. did some playing with photoshop & various programs  this weekend . one of the images i created the other day certainly became a pink fluff candy land:) 

Pink Cherry Blossoms & Alice Solantania Saga

outfit 1 for today's flower faerie:)

outfit

blondie of absolute vintage dress w/ lace
top shop flower headband
screaming mimis bangles
wolford stockings
office green as in envy ballerinas

mac violette rouge

today's mood board for poses
vintage ballet


i am deeply loved,
divinely appointed,
abundantly equipped, and
profoundly cherished by
god. no enemy plan,
scheme, or obstacle can
keep me from god's
highest and best will for
me. as i follow the voice
of my saviour, i see the
invisible, accomplish the 
impossible, and love the
unlovable. i am a living-
breathing miracle because
jesus christ lives in me!
amen.

- susie larson

i am a living breathing miracle 
the queen of sweets;0)!

you too are a living miracle
devour that

xxx

alice solantania saga

Saturday, May 02, 2015

An Adorable Outfit & A Blooming Morning Walk in Dulwich

hey:)

i had such a beautiful morning. pure visual perfection! 

i too listened to several interesting pod casts. there is one person i adore whom creates wonderful interviews, kristoffer triumf (one for swedish speaking people & another one in english)! i highly recommend him, you'll get to learn about so many wonderful people and there lives. 

now =  off to plan my 3rd faerie whom might happen tomorrow or monday. it depends on the weather & if i feel ready to create another one so soon (i mean sunshine happened yesterday).

what are you up to lovely people:)???

vintage outfit

vintage outfit

vintage quirky outfit
an adorable outfit 

blondie of absolute vintage 30's tea dress
grandma's gold heart
office ballerinas
top shop yellow cardie
beyond retro candy cardie


from this mornings walk:)

peckham rye common
garden

cox's walk of dulwich woods
church & woods

dulwich woods
bluebell flowers

a wonderful cherry blossom tree/ garden in dulwich
Cherry Blossom Garden

the garden of dulwich picture gallery
Cherry Blossoms

my dream house in dulwich village
Blossom Garden

some beautiful blooms 
Flowers

i wish you all a beautiful weekend
xxx
alice solantania saga