Winter is finally underway and the icy cold temperatures have had us dreaming of a tropical beach vacation far away from Boston’s snowy streets. Unfortunately that isn’t in the cards for us at the moment so we thought we might vacation vicariously through this list of sunshine-ready stuff we’d bring along with us.

Obviously at the top of the packing list: jewelry. First off, this

Colorful and extremely island appropriate, this piece will look as amazing with your t-shirt and jean shorts as it will with your little white dress at dinner.

Next we’d grab the M. Flynn chandelier earrings in amazonite.
Not only is turquoise the quintessential jewelry color of any island getaway, these earrings are super light, so we won’t have to worry about them weighing us down while we’re prancing around the beach looking sunkissed and stylish.

Not to be forgotten is our reliable favorite, the cleopatra necklace. The gold is going to look amazing with our radiant, new tans.

This colorful Marc by Marc Jacobs tote will be perfect for carrying all our beach essentials down to the water — a towel, some magazines, maybe a piña colada?

Since this vacation is all in our heads, we can totally do things like wear $2,000 Matthew Williamson dresses at the beach, am I right?

Top it all off, literally, with this giant straw hat from J. Crew and we’re good to go.

Add Ryan Gosling fanning us with palm leaves and this has been the best vacation we’ve ever been on … And without ever leaving the office.