SOW A THOUGHT; REAP YOUR MAGIC ACTIONS & SUCH THINGS 🌸

le spectre de la rose

is all i can think about right now

it is to be my next (or so...),

 shoot at the pergola hill & garden in hampstead

about something else

...

for the longest time i have played with identies

just because i can

 (and of course so can you💜)

my full name is:

alice amorina lindha marina violette

sagum 

formerly a jacobsson 

(born and bred so...

when my mom and stepfather changed their last name

 i changed mine too because

 i wanna have my mom's name forever and ever🌸 

i still identify as a jacobsson though😊

since this is the name of so much love i have recieved)

in my next blogpost i will expand on all this and

 how it has informed my work and my journey as an artist

today i finally braved myself to use my gym and its room where they have classes,

 for my ballerina training containing warming up, stretching and 

to practice various dance segments from lovely ballets

this is the reason i joined my gym in the first place

but have fallen in love with some of their classes 

especially a stretch and define class

by

epping yoga, chris!!!

here is a shoot i created the other week

maybe it was created as a preparation for my

le spectre de la rose 

project

yes finally she found the love

the rose 🌸🌹

that was left from yesterday's ball

i have shared this image before

but this is another shade

my perfection shade of violette

this location is just such beauty

 theydon bois and its allotments😊🌸🌷

it's a wrap!!!

sarah came to visit me on my shoot day

(remember we went to the lavendar field together

 & 

she gifted me with 

the knowledge of this location

 🌸😊)

my mom named her

maja gräddnos💜

such perfection:)))

i adore adore adore this kitten

an outfit for a tea 30's style

i bought this prada dress

when i was working for the new york times magazine

and was invited to its sample sales every season

it weighs a ton

and i have yet to figure out

what to create with it:)))

right now my august is focusing on making my environments

 super friendly for my studying, practicing and creating art

here is a blooming corner of mine:)

right next to my piano

music is being devoured

i wanna leave you with this

sow a thought and you reap an action;

sow an act and you  reap a habit;

sow a habit and you reap a character;

sow a character and you reap a destiny

- 

ralph waldo emerson

xxx

alice saga

WE ARE MARVELLOUS AND SUCH THINGS 💜

hi lovely readers😊

i do adore anais nïn

(it started around this time)

tomorrow is may 1st!!! 

it has felt SO far away but now it is so close:) 

i am going to avignon, france on may 17th!

this beautiful inspiring woman has had me in awe for more than a year:)

 for me to visit this magical place, thanks jamie:)

 i am so excited and have such hopes for me discovering this lovely area.

 i am to live in a flat rented via airbnb, 

so i'll have my own kitchen etc etc i am to live 10 days as a local person i hope🌸

a local that captures everything beauty in as many moments as possibly can happen.

so i finished wuthering heights (by emily brontë), 

i am glad to announce that despite the sadness of so many lives of the characters,

 the ending is so beautifully wonderful

 filled

 with hope and a reckoning of sorts:)

yesterday was time to start another jane austen book:)

 emma! 

i  hope it is equal to 

persuasion, mansfield park and sense & sensibility,

 all books of her that i now love adore.

on another note,

i love being a member of a gym.

 especially  taking some of their classes.

 most fun has been bootcamp and

 the most useful has been stretch & define

 which is such an addition to my ballet classes:)

 i never would have known had i not tried all these various classes offered. 

so i am glad i have braved all sorts of classes.

 one class that was sort of not for me has been boxcercise,

 oh dear how exhausting!

of course daily = photoshop

where did you go my dear sisters?

i've been searching for you for such a long time.

been wearing some cute springy things lately:)

i love my to be adored dress💜

 i styled a couple of lookbooks for binbin's to be adored label a few years ago, it may have been 2010 or so. the above dress was a gift to me, it's from her first collection which i loved SO much.

another shoot was this one.

i think her website is now here.

you might be wondering if you are checking out my links...yes i am the stylist linda portman!

for the longest time i have divided us up. it's just that i live for sisterhood, i live for trinity. i would have adored to have sisters.

so there you go:

alice, lindha & violette😊

looking happy in a 

catherine malandrino dress

(a buy i was happy to do while having special price while

 working for the new york times magazine)

zara jumper

chloe glasses

the cover of my phone is a double flowery exposure 

as created by moi😊

 a year ago, i went to kew gardens in richmond and started creating again after about a year and a half of silence. i did have and am still on that journey. 

the below 2 were the first ones i created:)

such a lovely entrance:))))

i love those lilacs.

 epping spring perfection

as you saw in the last blogpost my love helen helped me cut the plywood i had planned for still life shoots in my bedroom. i did not have patience to try this when i have painted the wood so put my newley bought clay dish as a subject in front of it:)

can't wait to paint my wood, to shoot food flowers and anything else lovely for still life images:)

tomorrow i am to cook in my new oven dish, healthily🌸🌷😊

tomorrow = may💕💕💕

my may self-portrait is the image as seen above, only different shades. 

do you like one over the other?

this will be my love my flat come may 17th:)))

avignon france

will share all about this of course when time comes

i'll leave you with this💜

i am an excitable person who only understands life
lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger
as reason. i am so thirsty for the marvellous that only
the marvellous has power over me.
anything i can not transform into something
marvellous, i let go. reality doesn't impress me.
i only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when
ordinary life shackles me, i escape, one way or another.
no more walls.

-

anaïs nin

you are exciting you are wonderful you are marvellous

let magic shine through you

no more walls

faith hope & love

alice amorina solantania saga

SHE WAS MAGICALLY BEWITCHED BY HER NAÏVE ASTONISHMENTS

hey beautiful creatures😊

how are you all doing?

 i hope it's all good and that everyone is feeling the joy of christmas coming around the corner:))) sunday it starts with the magic of advent. 

it's been such much rain here in epping these past couple of days but other from that there has been beautiful mornings filled with podcasts and books. just started reading mansfield park by jane austen. i hope to get as good a read as tolstoy's anna karenina which i read about a year ago or so.

here's some glimpses of my life this past week💜

i am playing with various tones/ shades/ colors on some of my most recent self-portraits

a nature spirit bewitched by the beauty of the planet

us and the planet with universe as  magic pieces of art

the scenario 

epping forest

a couple of other versions of my candy cake ballerina princesse faerie

(a couple of others here and some behind the scenes)

she was reaching for the moon and instead become one with the stars 🌟

found this image in my google drive and memories overwhelmed me

i miss my daily afternoon walks in this garden

such magic places

peckham rye park

a glimpse of my life then filled with art classes can be seen here

at home i am having fun exploring with water colours

play play play

 sunday = 1st of advent💓

of course i have invested in advent calendars,

 waiting for 2 of them 

while 

one thank goodness has arrived😊

my art creation table is back as a major mess as usual. 

my neverending story

a going to starbucks look from this week

all clothes are from charity shops

 lace top worn beneath dress is by top shop

dress is by h (from a celebrity i think...)

&

cardie is by chloe

now time for

some various inspirations:)

butterfly violette's

2013 was the year i created a 365 day art project. i created one collage a day either on my ipad or as in the real deal cutting and pasting and doodling:))) finished 3 books of collages.

blessed be

my blessed be messy art creation table😂

created a reel of some of my fine art photography & self-portraits last year

while reading

the poem

look to this day

next creation of mine is inspired 
by the tradition 

of

lucia

above illustration by john bauer 

she light to the darkness

the day is december 13th

illustration by jenny nyström

 bringing light & hope to us all that christ is to be born very soon

she brings a feast (as in celebration) of sorts

i adore this lucia flower crown

(can't find the source but here is my google search and you'll see it)

i need someone to create this flower crown for me💜

this seems to be a difficult find!!!

on another note

i have found a new style & beauty inspiration:)))😀

hannah weiland 
of
 designer label 
 shrimps 💕💕💕

(images are from vogue)

that rapunzel faerie tale hair and quirky happiness smile = gold

of course she designed her own wedding dress💜💜💜

i just love her designs

 above image from evening standard
she only wears (and designs) faux fur since she like me loves animals

this gif below is from the website of shrimps

adore adore adore it all

please give me all her dresses, such cuteness😍

keep true to the rare music in
your heart, to the marvelous and
unique form that is and shall
always be nothing else but you.

- mark z. danielewski
"house of leaves"

xxx

alice saga

THE MAGIC BEAUTY & SADNESS FRAGILITY OF LIFE

all the diversity, all the charm,
 and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shadow
- leo tolstoy, anna karenina

this past week has been such a sadness week. one filled with acknowledgments of being grateful but too of loss.

i've had invaluable help of someone, his name is tony or rather was. i had been in such sadness circumstances and he helped my whole life turn around for the better. i trusted him, and he was, i guess, the only one i have seen regularly for over a year. i adored him quite frankly. and was looking forward to maybe have him be in my personal life. we were a team, that is how i viewed it. i felt safe knowing he was to help me and was on my side at all times. what am i to do know when he is no longer?

such so full of life, loved living, being quirky, being clever and so (as he knew himself very much so😅) loving being alive. i thought so often, give me whatever he is having:)))  dear creatures i am tiny bit scared again.

so my week has been about thinking of how grateful i am to be alive and to have my close knit family primarlily mom & aunt to be alive. 

i am to go to tony's funeral and am frightened. but i so wanna meet his wife and his daughter whom must be in such suffering. i too wanna meet all the others that tony has helped over the years.

of course alice

yes yes yes lovely thanks safety

oh tony tony tony

did this really happen?

creating art work

so he's in heaven now

yesterday i decided to find words that describe tony my friend

i am to write them out in the various clouds i have outlined/ painted below

i am so happy that i in the end of last year gave him a gift. because he had done so much for me and my situation with wellbeing and feeling safe again finally.

he loved it. he told all his friends in his office and a phoebe reminded me of this the other day. i am so grateful that i did this. and i am so grateful that he loved it.

oh dear god in the heavens give me grace.

lovelies

spring is a tiny bit happening

the love of bees & flowers perfection

yes yes yes

epping forest magic

other things maybe less important in the scheme of things i was without a phone for weeks before getting a new one, and this past thursday morning my computer had died. it was stressful and prayed for no more things happening now. but i happen to have a kindness goodness aunt whom loves me beyond everything and am not sure how i deserved that privelidge. very grateful that i did get that though!

💜💜💜

so this is an adventure with my new computer

a couple of new desktop images

 my photography of course:)

my first and newly created iphone cover

mirror selfies 

 wearing a vintage dress 

today's outfit

😊

prairie vintage

dress is by from zara

spring a year ago from kew gardens 

jessie dunne in my garden in a dress by to be adored

polaroid perfection

from today as captured with my iphone x

lovelies i am so tired.

i wanna share more of all the love i am experiencing from my online art classes and such but it will have to wait until next week or so. dears to be in the moment... to feel sadness and joy at the same time, that is to be my practice in order to  feel be alive.

faith hope love

alice