Feeling a Little Tipsy | OOTD

Hey y'all!  So i've decided that I am going to try and post my OOTD details with y'all from the week every Friday.  However, since I just decided to start this, I only have today's OOTD to show.

Today I wore my Lilly Pulitzer Cosmo Pink Feeling a Little Tipsy Eliza Dress!  The neat thing about this dress is that the tag was removable and the dress can be worn as a v-neck like I am wearing it, or it can be turned around and worn as a boat neck!  

So happy to be able to start wearing my Lilly Pulitzer White McKim sandals again for summer!

I also used my gold Lilly Pulitzer purse today that love to be able to just quickly grab when I don't need to take all of my stuff with me in my big purse.

Here are the accessories of today's outfit!  My monogram necklace and monogram earrings are both from Max and Chloe, the watch is Michael Kors, and the beautiful nautical cuff that I love pulling out in the summer is from The Gifterie Palm Beach!

Time to Meet the Parents

It's time to meet the parents and help you understand why I love the beach and small towns!

My mom was born an raised At Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island.  (how cool is that to grow up on an island?!)  She grew up in this quaint beach town located right outside of Jacksonville, FL.  She spent her school years cheering on the Fernandina Beach Pirates where my grandpa was the football coach and her summers were spent at the beach, riding her bike around town, and helping make boiled peanuts and cast nets.  On her way to the beach she would stop by the Putt-Putt Golf and get a Blue Raspberry Sprite, a sprite with a squirt of blue raspberry snow cone flavoring, to enjoy at the beach.  Now when her and I go to the beach there we always pick one up on the way.  Yum!  Some of my favorite things to do while visiting Amelia Island is walking through the historic downtown, eating outside in the fresh sea breeze, and watching the light house at night.  I also love going to the Shrimp Boat Festival which happens every year during the first weekend in May.  If you are every in the area, I would definitely take the time to visit this beautiful place!

Now onto my dad.  My dad is from the forgotten coast, also known as the panhandle of Florida!  There are so many small towns that run into one another creating this coast.  Taking a drive right down highway 98 you pass through the forgotten coast from Wewahitchka, FL to Port St. Joe to Cape San Blas to Indian Pass all the way to Apalachicola, FL.  If you go the opposite way it becomes less forgotten from Mexico Beach, FL to Panama City Beach (which I know everyone has heard of!) to Destin and Pensacola!  My whole life I have been brought up coming to this quaint area.  I have learned and experienced more irreplaceable things here than anywhere else.  From a young age my favorite things to do here are crabbing in Money Bayou, scalloping in the Bay, and sitting on the tailgate enjoying a bonfire on the beach.  Now that I am older these are still some of my favorite things to do, especially getting to bring some of my friends to our beach house we have here and letting them experience these things.  We love hanging out at Indian Pass Raw Bar, sitting on the porch, and doing karaoke on Friday nights!

                                            

        

With my mom growing up on the Atlantic coast and my dad growing up on the Gulf of Mexico, I have a true appreciation for the beauty and variance of the coasts that Florida has to offer.  I believe that both of these places have played a big role in who I am today and have given me memories that will last a lifetime.  Although my parents have both told me that small towns are not always peachy with everyone knowing everyone and your personal business spreading like wildfire, the closeness of the community is one of the things I cherish most and my heart is always happy when i'm visiting one of these small towns.

Have any of y'all visited any of these places or have a similar place near and dear to your heart?

We're Just Sittin' Pretty in Suntan City

 From drinking out of pineapples in Cozumel, Mexico to drinking out of coconuts in the Bahamas I think it is safe to say I had an amazing spring break!

For spring break my friends and I went on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Explorer of the Seas (were any of y'all on that ship?  I saw lots of Lilly!).  We had so much fun on this cruise that took us to Cozumel, Mexico and Nassau, Bahamas.

Our first stop was Cozumel.  While we were there we spent the day at a place called Mr. Sancho's and it was so gorgeous, I totally recommend it to anyone who will be traveling that way!  They had swimming pools, a tiki bar, and fun swings!

      

Our next stop was Nassau.  While we were there we went to a public beach called Junkanoo Beach.  It was so much fun!  There were little tiki huts surround the beach and they even had wifi!  Someone on a Lilly Facebook page I follow recommended this beach to someone and I decided to check it out and I loved it, thanks fellow Lilly lover!  It was just a short walk from our port so it was super convenient, there was also a Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Señor Frogs, and Fat Tuesdays!  It was also Brandon's birthday while we were in the Bahamas.  We jumped off of a wall that was out in the water and it was a lot of fun but afterwards we read a sign that said "no jumping" oops!

If I had to pick a favorite time from the cruise, I couldn't.  It would be impossible.  Everything was so much fun!  From Mexico, to the Bahamas, and all the yummy food we ate in between i've just been wishing I could go back everyday.  It was the perfect way to spend my final college spring break!

                      

Feelin' the love ~ Happy (late) Valentine's Day!

Hey y'all!  I know this is a little late, but hey, better late than never!  I wanted to share with y'all the goodies I got from my valentines' as well as a fit review!

To start off, look at these beach pants!  Aren't they to die for?!  I was extremely shocked when I got these for Valentines Day because not only were these from a few seasons back, but they are extremely hard to find!  But of course, leave it to my mama, and she can find just about any hard to find, desperately in search of, item you are looking for!  These are my new obsession so I am going to go ahead and apologize now if you get tired of seeing them posted on Southern Lilly Lady!

The next thing I got, and something y'all will probably also get sick of seeing so much because it is just that extremely comfy, is the weekender jacket and pants in the new Lilly Pulitzer Luxletic!  These are super comfy and light weight that they are perfect for doing practically anything in.  The pants have a jacket it that back which is so convenient for cash, credit cards, or keys when you are out and about and need to free your hands.  However, there is one flaw.  When I said earlier that I had a fit review, it was for these.  I'm sure many of y'all are curious how they fit since there has been so much controversy on the sizing.  I will start off by saying I am a true size 2 and usually a small, but occasionally an extra small.  Well, that has now changed!  I got a medium in the jacket and a small in the pants.  The reason I sized up in the jacket was because of my chest, the jacket is still snug fitting the way it is supposed to be, but now I do not look like I was squeezed into it.  In regards to the pants, I kept the size small because I like my pants like these to be a little tighter and not stretch out to much through out the day.  However, I do not think a medium would have been way too big on me either.  Regardless of the sizing, everyone needs these!  They are great!

As many of you know, my boyfriend and I do not usually celebrate Valentine's Day.  February 14th is something much more special to us, it is our anniversary.  This year was our 6th anniversary!  Boy how the time flies!  Seems like it was just yesterday that he was the boy with cooties on the playground in elementary school and then he somehow became the "annoying" boy I had a secret crush on in my class sophomore year of high school and now he is my sweet boyfriend of 6 years!

Brandon took me on a surprise picnic by a lake where he presented me with this card.  Everything he wrote in the card was exceptionally sweet, but there was one thing in there that showed me how much he really does care and listen to me when I assume he has tuned me out:  A TARGET GIFT CARD!  Yep ladies, he is a keeper.  I'm sure all of you Lilly lovers know exactly what that gift card is for.  I have been blabbing on and on with excitement about the Lilly for Target collaboration coming up in April and have also been slightly freaking out that I won't be able to hoard all of the items.  It was at that moment that I knew he was a keeper since he supports my Lilly addiction!  (Just kidding Brandon, I knew you were a keeper before that!)

Yes that is my boyfriend's 5 year old handwriting, but I love it!

 Well I think it's safe to say I am one lucky girl with some amazing Valentines'!  I hope all of y'all had a wonderful Valentines and don't hesitate to ask if you have any more questions about the fit of my new Lilly clothes!

xoxo,

Southern Lilly Lady

I figured I would share a struggle I face daily when trying to take pictures.  This is my cat Kitty and she loves to photobomb.  She's been begging to be in a photo so I gave in!