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Cute N' Cozy Tag

December 03, 2014




Hello Darlings,

I found this cute tag and thought it would be fun or interesting to do to bask in the last rays of fall before winter come alongs and swamps me with dreary days waking up to constant snow. So cuddle up with some blankets and lets delve into the fall spirit.


  1. 1.Favorite thing about fall?
I think the weather and leaves, or just outdoors altogether because it its really beautiful.

2.Best Halloween memory?
I’m not really much of a halloween person, but probably when I twinned with my friend as a mouse.


  1. 3.Football games or Moving Nights?
I don’t go to football games often, but when I do get to go it’s really fun, so going to football games but definitely not for actually watching the game.

4.Favorite fall Starbucks Drink?
I don’t really change my drinks at Starbucks but any kind of Chai is very autumnal to me.

5.Name a song that gets you in the fall mood.
Gold rush by Ed Sheeran is very fun and puts me in a good mood in the mornings before school.

6.Hot chocolate or Tea?
This is actually really hard but I think tea because I could drink that at anytime of any day and not be tired of it.

7.Sweaters or hoodies?
Sweaters, because they’re cute but still extremely comfortable.

8.Fuzzy Socks or slippers?
Fuzzy Socks so I can slide around on hardwood.

9.Favorite Thanksgiving food?
I actually have no idea because we cook different things every year but probably the turkey or corn bread.

10.Have you ever jumped in a pile of leaves?
No, but I would actually really want to.

11.Scarves or Beanies?
Scarves are my absolute everything, but beanies are cute also.

Thank you for reading!

Be free, Be You,
Mary

music

Music Mondays 12.1.14

December 01, 2014


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Hello darlings,
This is Layla, a British artist that I am obsessed with recently. She is so hardworking, writing, and producing her own songs and so many of them are so amazing so I thought I would like to share my favorite two by her and hopefully you fall in love with her like I have.

Smokestacks:

Oh My Love:




Thank you for reading

Be Free, Be You
Mary

random

Chat #1

November 30, 2014


Hello Darlings,


Right now it is 12:07 AM and I am laying in my bed both incredibly inspired and jittered. I don’t know what brings these moods on but it happened and now I have to ambition to do just about everything, starting with this blog post, and finishing with my History paper.

Topic numero Uno.

I changed my blog name, Yay. If you don’t know my old name , um ok fake friend, but I used to be Free the Teen which didn’t fit because I came to the realization that I wouldn’t actually be a teenager forever -only 6 more years - so the name does not have staying power. I kind of like my new name ‘Said Mary’ it’s cute for now, let’s see how cute it is in about a month when my next yearn for change is awoken.

Colleges?

I am still so confused about my future. At one end of the spectrum I want to be a singer/songwriter, the dream that I had always wanted but pushed aside as foolish since I have been a child. But at another I want to be a Young Adult Author and just spend my days happily writing. Perhaps a combination? And these are only some of my goals, there are still so many more that I want and hopefully will achieve. Returning to the actual topic here I think I know which college I want to go to which is Columbia University, but I also would really like to go to New York University (or NYU as the cool kids might call it, I wouldn’t know).

Writing!

This is probably the thing I’m most excited about recently. WHO’S LAUGHING NOW GOT 10K READS. This is absolutely amazing, getting to see one of your dreams/ goals being kind of achieved. I just need to get off my butt and write more chapters, and frequently too. But I also want to write other books. I have way too many just sitting as ideas that I really want to actualize.

Photography!

Nothing really to say here but I really want to get back into it as a hobby. I think I’m just rambling at this point.

Personality?

I’m not really a shy person anymore but I find myself being more of a modest person and would rather let someone else stand out until i’m kind of forced or pushed by someone else to - for lack of better words - strut my stuff. I think I do this because I dont want to seem like a cocky b*tch, but it’s kind of depressing watching someone else get something that you could’ve/should’ve if you would have gotten up and said something. So from now on goal is to be a bit more showy and outgoing? If you dont like it? Not my problem.

I think I’m done, Thanks for reading!

Be Free, Be You, Mary



fall

11.6.14 OOTD

November 09, 2014


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Hello Darlings,


This outfit was born in my 5am sleeplike state a cold morning for school that I actually was pretty proud of. I love this one and it’s really easy to make variations of because it was actually just thrown together with things I just found around my house.


Grey Sweater -Borrowed from my Dad
Infinity Scarf - Mom by my mom
Black tights
Navy Blue Vans
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Be free. Be you. Mary

love

Dear Autumn

November 05, 2014




Dear Fall,
I know this is early. Sudden even. But I have to say this. It hasn’t been long. I even feel like it just started yesterday. 


But, I love you.

I love the way you make me feel, the way you smell, the way you make everything golden and cozy. When you stroll right up everyone turns and stares. but no one stares as long  and as hard as I do. I know this is real.Everything about you is stunning, your style, your music taste, you always make the best food, you cradle me better than all the others. I know you said you can’t be committal but, please.

Try...

Only three months, this can only be a fling, I’ll be back in a year. That’s what you always say.Winter doesn’t make me happy like you do.The ever present freezing me out, so many layers between us, everything is dead around winter.Please, stay longer.

Your faithful admirer,
Mary

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