Wednesday, December 31, 2014

I Wish You A Candy Cute Brilliant New Year

full of magic!
&
love to you all:)
Collage by Alice Solantania Saga

that we are here-
that life exists
that the play goes on
&
you may contribute beauty
Collage by Alice Solantania Saga, "that we are here"!

this morning i created part 6 of my tuvstarr tale. the image below is a raw image where i am just testing the light. i adore my roses:)) i bought 3 bouquets for this shoot! in the end i only needed 2 but the one left will be cute outside my house for outfit posts! i am very happy about the outcome. will work on it beginning of our new year 2015! will do part 7 on saturday or sunday. i had champagne today while making myself ready to become the princess, afterwards i had tea at a place called toasted here in dulwich to create the above collage that i call "that we are here"! came home, first thing was to clean my muddy feet haha and then transferred photos to my computer and lastly i created the happy new year thingy. will soon go to franklins to set goals and plan some 2015 happenings. see you in the next year beautiful creatures.
Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga in Sydenhamhill Wood
my heart is refusing me

that is what i call part 6!

much love
alice solantania saga

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Meet A Princess Tuvstarr

 part 5 of my princesse tuvstarr story, a taste! in the end i am to choose one image for each part of the tale. i wonder which one is to be the one.

tomorrow part 6 is to happen:)
A Self Portrait by Aice Solantania Saga

A Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

A Selfportrait by Alice Solantania Saga

Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

this is how it looks like before altering my tuvstarr images. 
a raw taste, what do you think?
Princess Tuvstarr

see some more of my tales here:) 

my moodboard for tuvstarr can be viewed here!

this is where one enters dulwich woods, this morning it was such a sunshine ice cold beauty winter morning. i love this place, each season has its own beauty.
Sydenhamhill Woods

tomorrow is new years:))) i am starting my day with part 6 of this tale of mine. i think i have decided on what location in the woods, on tomorrow's walk i might change my mind. in the afternoon i am just to hang out at franklins planning & setting goals for 2015 and probably pick one of all my new photography books to read.

what are you up to on the last day of our 2014?

love
alice solantania saga

Monday, December 29, 2014

Diary 264: My Christmas in Uddevalla, Sweden:)

my christmas week was spent at home in sweden. i almost got to see all the people i love. i did miss a certain wonderful therese, a linda, a janina and stepbrothers with stepmom though, hopefully i am going home soon again:) i only had 4 days and those ones were packed with activities. i am so happy i got to go home!!!

how was your christmas:)))??? tell me! your traditions? i wish hope that you had the best of days.

my stepfather with aunt picked med up at the airport and the  first stop was a food store which still carries all my fave candy:) see?
candy

first meeting was with my lovely bestie friend pernilla:)) we went to this cafe in uddevalla called yerba! a cuteness place.
wienerbröd

how uddevalla looks like during christmas times. beautiful right?
our little square!
christmas tree

this was taken on my first morning walk! our christmas day:) such beauty! the ocean and uddevalla bridge.
Uddevalla

when i came home this was waiting for me:)))
presents

:)))
steal like an artist & min egen receptsamling

then we had a christmas lunch with my uncles and my cousin and her cute children.  of course my mom, aunt and 2 stepfathers was with me!! this ebba is fantastic:)
cute child

early evening we were at my mom's place and we had dinner! i love adore love adore janson's frestelse.
Christmas Dinner

then it was time for me, mom, aunt with stepfathers for our tradition of the christmas game. such a fun but terribly stressful game. of course everyone wants as many gifts as possible! well maybe me most haha. all together we had almost 60 presents. i bought 11. they are all to be under or around £3-4 (ca 40 swedish crowns). 
Julklappsleken

action! to be able to choose/win a gift the dice needs to be a 6. a stepfather here got a 1:)) haha! the arm to the left is mine, my turn!
Julklappar

fell in love with this:
liqueur

after the game. coffee, wine, brandy & cointreau:) all mine.
coffee,brandy and wine

the morning after which is some peoples christmas (the 25th). i created a little morning walk on my own before....
Gustafsberg

Bäveån and Bohusläns Museum

meeting up with my stepfather to visit tureborg and some old old ruins.
Borgen

Borgen

the graffiti is new though!!
Borgen
hi:)))
Tureborg Skog

when at home i need all things to devour. my fave ice cream! piggelin perfection.
isglass
this is a dream candy!
Gräddkola

a tiny obsession with marabou! spread a little mmm;0)! first time i tested this non stop version. a limited addition that was delicious.
Non Stop

Daim

Salta Mandlar

the morning of friday the 26th me and my friend pernilla created a long walk. it was ice ice cold, so cold that in the end i had no idea how to survive until we got inside. hallelujah! i had one hour of that. the whole walk was 2h and 20 minutes. but the beauty made it so worth it. bjursjön perfection.
Bjursjön

Bjursjön

Uddevalla
such a week. i too got to see my godfather with a lovely anne. then my dad:)))) 3 hours in the middle of my christmas day! i have not seen my dad on christmas since i was a child! thank you thomas for driving me. my last evening, friday, i had hours and hours with my love sabina, thank goodness for your existence. 

happy to be back home but i wish wish to go back soon.

here is something beautiful from today
the sun was shining and i did a second walk. came home and played with my samsung galaxy and its editing software and then emailed the image to my iphone where i played with the app vsco cam.

during my walk this was on my mind:)

the realm of possibility

 "it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us."

- the realm of possibility, david levithan

see you tomorrow
love 
alice solantania saga

Sunday, December 28, 2014

An Ice Queen Sweetness Sunday

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

you will
eventually
become it.


how i adore that quote:)

i am back in london! yesterday was a travel day.

 yesterday was too my grandfather's day, he would have turned 88. it's been 7 years since i lost him. he is in my thoughts every day. if there was ever one i would have loved to impress or have someone see me succeed, that would have been him. it did not happen. that makes me sad so these thoughts took over my whole morning walk. i was to find back to my princess tuvstarr, but my thoughts just went back to my grandpa. i tried games of thrones but had to give up and let my thoughts be. he was my special one & after he passed my grandmother told me that i should never forget that i was his special one:) thank you grandma for that. he taught me how to cycle, ski & drive a car. he gave me time which is the most precious thing one can give to another human being. he too gave me all my firsts! for ex. my first record player, watch, skis, bicycle and so many other things. let's not forget my first professional camera, that happened the day before he passed away.

it's almost 2.30 now and my thoughts has turned into gratitude. sadness gone!

soon on my way to franklins to devour all my photography books full of ideas on how to experiment. excited over this. 2015 is to be photography with self portraits, some fashion & my faerie tales of violette. 

keep looking for all the beauty in this world and you will eventually become it:)

meet sweetness the ice queen
Absolute Vintage Dress

A vintage dress from Absolute Vintage and its sister store Blondie
sweetness wears:

blondie (an absolute vintage shop) dress
grandma's gold heart

a winter friday morning as spent in sweden with my dear pernilla and a sleeping cuteness gösta:)
Bjursjön
bjursjön, uddevalla

tomorrow i'll create a little diary post showing my christmas week as spent in my hometown!

love
alice solantania saga

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas Beautiful Creatures

i wish for you all to have the best christmas.
one full of love & happiness!
Christmas collage by Alice Solantania Saga
i am in my hometown uddevalla in sweden and everything is perfect. will show you beautiful pictures soon. i've spent time with dear ones but too been location scouting for the final scene of my tuvstarr project:)

make a fairy tale 
and go live in it

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!)

Monday, December 22, 2014

The Faerie Tales of Violette

it's just a faerie tale

the cherry blossom girl
Self Portrait by Alice Saga

Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

please dear god in the heavens, have mercy upon my soul
- the angel prayed
A Self Portrait by Alice Saga

princesse tuvstarr
Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

the may queen
Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

mirror mirror;0)!
the candy cake witch
Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

Self Portrait by Alice Saga

i am a dream
I am A Dream

Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

Self Portrait by Alice Solantania Saga

i am working on my it's just a faerie tale series of self portraits. some are just a character and one image; and some are tales.

i thought this was to be over the course of one year but i see it as my main focus for the whole of 2015.

tomorrow i am going home:))) to sweden that is.

much love
alice solantania saga