{Neon Nails}

Slowly, even little, conservative me is embracing the neon trend.  I’ll admit I was reluctant at first, I love bright colors but how could I pull off this trend at work?  My new rule for clothes purchases: do not buy unless the piece can be worn in the office.

 

 

Aside from the orange (whoever said orange was the new pink was seriously disturbed), I love {Essie’s Spring 2013 hues}. I might have to make a pilgrimage to Target for DJ play that song, shake your $$$ maker and bottle service. Considering it takes me about an hour to go to Target, that is saying quite a lot.

 

While I enjoy painting my nails, I don’t enjoy having to switch out the colors every couple of days.  There are simply not enough hours to do that!  I think these shades would transition from spring outfit to spring outfit seamlessly.  I am already picturing these neon nails brightening up my black work dresses and coral swim suit alike!

 

 

Written by Lauren from DC Girl In Pearls

ML & Ashley Brooke Designs **GIVEAWAY**

Hey Ya'll!  It's time for another Marley Lilly Monogrammed Life Giveaway!  We are excited to announce this AMAZING collaboration with Ashley Brooke Designs!  We absolutely LOVE their custom illustrations, so we were excited to team up with them for this adorable giveaway!

Ashley Brooke Designs loves sharing life's big moments and everyday adventures through design.  They are crazy about paper and find it to be one of life's loveliest luxuries.  It is their mission to make your fondest paper dreams come true and they take pride in walking you through their process step by step until your vision becomes a reality! 

One lucky lady will win their choice of a monogrammed hair bow and a set of custom illustrated notecards featuring YOU and your new hair bow from ABD!!

This giveaway is incredible with a retail value of over $250!!!!!

Can't get enough ABD & Marley Lilly?  Be sure to check out these amazing ABD: Styled posts featuring our products:

• We love this one with our orange outline derby hat!
• Who doesn't love gardening in a monogrammed baseball hat?  
• Wouldn't be spring break or summer vacation without monogrammed sunglass straps!

Okay, so all you need to do to enter to win is follow the instructions below!! 

Good Luck!!

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Fashion Friday: Batter up

Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd....buy me a ML Penny Purse and I don't care if I never get  back!!!

 

Well, we couldn't help ourselves...we just love how McKenna from McKenna Bleu once again makes your basic baseball T look so cute....with of course her Marley Lilly Monogrammed Penny Cross Body Wristlet Purse!!!

This is the perfect spring causal look...Happy Spring!!

 Top- Cotton On similar / Jeans- Hollister similar / Shoes- Loehmann's similar / Clutch- Marley Lilly buy here/ Necklace- Forever 21 similar / Sunglasses- Ray- Ban buy here/ Earrings- Kate Spade buy here/ Belt- Urban Outfitters/ Watch- Michael Kors buy here/ Bracelet- Forever 21

 

 

 

Written by: McKenna from McKenna Blue

 

 

CAMPUS REPPIN

Marley Lilly Campus Reps Across the Nation

Can we start this post by saying how much we LOVE our Campus Reps?

They have seriously been ah-mazing!  We had no idea what to expect when we started this program at the end of last year!  We seriously thought we would be lucky if we had 25 applicants.  At the end of the first weekend, we had over 50 application e-mails in our inbox.  When we finally stopped taking applications sometime in December, we rounded out the program with 129 lovely reps from all across the nation.

Anyways, back to the program…  

When Kelly first brought us the idea to have a campus affiliate program, it was the beginning of November, we had a manageable order queue and were looking to get the word out about Marley Lilly before Black Friday and Christmas orders starting pouring in (literally).  Like most of her good ideas - the campus rep program was thought up during another sleepless night with her then newborn. 

Within 24 hours of coming up with the Campus Affiliate program, we had a promotional flyer, ordered what we thought would be more than enough hair ties and wrote a blog post that we were excited to share with the world.

When we finalized the numbers, we were shocked, slightly overwhelmed with the amount of work to be done and quite honestly - didn't know where to start!  

Can we just say that we definitely appreciated your patience as we worked through the growing pains of this program?!  Due to the overwhelming response, it did take us a lot longer to send out all of the goodies but we are proud to say that all 129 packages have officially been mailed!  It may have taken us a few months - but hey, we did have a LOT of hair ties to tie (17,500+ to be exact)

Without further ado, here are the stats on the Campus Rep Program:

129 Campus Representatives

28 States

25 Organizations

90 Campuses

17,874 Women

Largest Chapter: ZTA at Arkansas (381), Campus Rep: Kaci Sturgeon

Smallest Chapter: KD at Longwood (52), Campus Rep: Elizabeth Nelson

Since we know that everyone loves a good competition, here's how the organization stacked up.  (Did we mention how proud we were that we had SEVENTEEN Kappa Delta reps? #AOT!)

Kappa Delta - 17

Chi Omega - 9

Phi Mu - 8

Zeta Tau Alpha - 8

Alpha Chi Omega - 7 

Delta Zeta - 7

Kappa Kappa Gamma - 7

Alpha Omicron Pi - 6

Delta Delta Delta - 6

Delta Gamma - 6

Alpha Delta Pi - 5

Alpha Phi - 5

Sigma Kappa - 5

Alpha Gamma Delta - 4

Alpha Chi Delta - 4

Pi Beta Phi - 4

Pi Sigma Sigma - 3

Alpha Sigma Alpha - 2

Alpha Sigma Tau - 2

Sigma Sigma Sigma - 2

Delta Pi Epsilon - 1

Gamma Phi Beta - 1

Omicron Pi Alpha - 1

Sigma Pi Lambda - 1

Tau Pi Alpha - 1

We'd also like to give a BIG shout out to our #1 Campus Rep - Jullian Farrington!  She had SEVENTEEN orders placed with her name written in the "Where did you hear about us?" location when her chapter members, friends and family placed orders on our website!  So...

SHOUT OUT to the Chi Omega chapter at NC State University!

So, You Love Marley Lilly and want to share Marley Lilly with your organization on campus?  Be sure you are following us on Facebook and Twitter to be the first to hear about any new campus rep programs we will be offering in the future.  

We can't wait to continue working with our lovely reps and see where the fall semester takes us!

Until then...

Peace, Love & Monograms,

Marley Lilly Staff

PS - Can you believe that we tied over 17,000 hair ties?  We must seriously love our jobs.

Written by Holly

What's Hot: Hot Yoga

A couple months ago I saw a great deal on Livingsocial for a month unlimited of hot yoga. I had just moved to Greenville, and lets be honest....I wasn't going to join a gym! So, I decided to purchase the Livingsocial deal and give this hot yoga thing a shot!

Well 6 months later and I'M IN LOVE!! Not only have I lost an incredible amount of weight, but I feel better, I'm stronger, and I'm 10 times more flexible then I could have ever imagined!! But, you have to love to sweat...I mean really love to sweat, because you'll be ringing wet after a hot yoga class!

Get your sweat on

Yoga Poses


So you may be wondering what are the benefits to this thing called hot yoga?? Well here are just a few:

 

Increases pulse rate = increase in metabolism

Increases flexibility of blood vessels = increase of blood flow to limbs

Decreases stress

Clearer &softer skin

Alleviates pain caused by arthritis

The list of hot yoga benefits goes on and on....

But the best benefit of all... you, like I, will have an excuse to buy amazing yoga goodies from Lululemon & Marley Lilly....need I say more?!?!?

 

 

So, in honor of my new found love and shopping addiction I put together a couple of my favorite yoga products that I can't sweat with out!

 

 

 

I hope this post leaves you wondering where you can find your nearest hot yoga studio and

 If yoga isn't your thing...I swear Marley Lilly & Lululemon will be!!

 

 

 

Namaste

Peace, Love, & Monograms

Written by: Katie O.

 

get *NAUTI* with Marley Lilly

Hey Ya'll! It's time for another Marley Lilly Monogrammed Life Giveaway! We are loving anything nautical for summer, so we wanted to give all of our fans the opportunity to win their very own Marley Lilly monogrammed item! You can check the items out on MarleyLilly.com by clicking the image below!

TWO lucky winners will win an item of their choice from the set above!!!

Here are some of our favorite shots of these great products!!

Okay, so all you need to do to enter to win is follow the instructions below!! Good Luck!

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HOW TO STYLE: BOYFRIEND JEANS

One of my sisters recently asked me how to style the new pair of boyfriend jeans she just bought, this gave me the idea for a new post series. Be sure to let me know if you have an idea for a new “how to style” post!

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Get the looks

One:

Blazer | Top | Clutch | Jeans | Shoes

Two:

Top | Clutch | Jeans | Shoes

Three:

Top | Watch | Jeans | Shoes

Written by Samantha from Subtly Fabulous