At Christmas-time I can never get enough colorful lights filling up the long, dark nights. Honolulu is absolutely magical in December with all the bulbs strung up on palm trees, along balconies, and in store windows. Just like snow, a few strings of holiday lights turn the mundane magical. The banyan trees with their long, aerial roots mixed with streams of festive lights are particularly captivating.
A visit downtown for dinner gave me an excuse to wear my newest Modcloth dress. Sandra of Niotillfem looked too adorable in hers for me to resist snapping it up. The black band under the bust is actually elastic, so it makes for a really nice fit. I'm really not fond of the color pink, but the colors of this dress reminded me of a dish Neapolitan ice cream. Which does mean I feel more like a pastry than a person while wearing it...
And just like that--a flash in the dark--I'm back in Washington State. My time in Hawaii is at an end. When I was younger I thought I would never, ever be able to visit Hawaii; then we moved there. Now, I've been allowed the opportunity to go back (however briefly) and it was bliss. I miss it already, but I feel the chance to return will come again one day.
Outfit details: dress- Modcloth, shoes- Bona Drag, ring- Stadium Swapmeet, necklace- Anirtak
Outfit details: dress- Modcloth, shoes- Bona Drag, ring- Stadium Swapmeet, necklace- Anirtak
It looks amazing there and that dress reminds me of the stripey ice cream aswell :)
ReplyDeleteahhh! i love your dress. and your posts have made me sooo excited to visit hawaii next year. i hope you have a safe trip home!
ReplyDeleteyour dress is so beautiful. hawaii looks amazing this time of year, wish I was there!
ReplyDeleteSuch a nice dress, I love the shape!
ReplyDeleteGreat dress!! *3*
ReplyDeleteIt's sad that it's a little blured, the colors looks so beautiful... I would like to see more!! ^^
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ah the lights! how exquisite.
ReplyDeletehawaii is gorgeous during the holiday season! :) and you look absolutely adorable in that dress. it does remind me of ice cream as well haha
ReplyDeleteit looks like the water is on fire in the last pic!
ReplyDeletewow hawaii is more beautiful than san francisco during christmas - you can never have too many fairy lights!
ReplyDeleteOh my, this is my very, very favorite dress of yours! You look like a very very lovely cupcake (I've always thought pastries looked pretty?) I don't love Christmas lights but you make them look so pretty and mysterious.
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You look very cute in that dress and Hawaii does look lovely with all the lights in the trees.
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This is so beautiful. I love the red tree...it looks ablaze in technicolor warmth! Your dress is so perfect. Now I must go to Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteThose pictures are so lovely and sparkly, and that Kerouac quotation is a great way to describe them! You look lovely in your "ice cream" dress :) There was a pair of Miu Mius a few years ago I used to call the "ice cream pumps" and I adored them -- somehow pink and white colorblocks are so appealing!
ReplyDeletebeautiful pictures...i can't get enough of people from all over the world posting about all the xmas lights and decorations where they live
ReplyDeletethat is such a cute dress on you! I love it.
ReplyDeletelove the dress! lovely colors!
ReplyDeleteWow Hawaii looks magical at Christmas! I really love your dress too, so lovely :)
ReplyDeleteThat last picture is breathtaking...it's so magical!
ReplyDeletei just love the look of christmas lights on things that we don't associte with christmas(i.e.. palm trees, cacti,..)
ReplyDeletethat dress looks great on you!
that tree is incredible! it looks like a fairytale.
ReplyDeletePS: I've been eying that modcloth dress! It looks oh so lovely on you.
Absolutely beautiful photos! Travel is so wonderful.
ReplyDeletei.love.that.dress.
ReplyDeleteI love your dress ! You look great !
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it really does look magical! and that dress looks lovely on you! i hope you enjoy the rest of your time in hawaii!
ReplyDeleteI love that dress! :) I was going to order it for Christmas, but I'm pretty sure it's sold out. :/ Oh well.
ReplyDeleteChristmas lights are the best, aren't they? On Christmas Eve my sister and I like to go driving to look at all the decorated houses. :)
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wow so im assuming that youre staying there for x mas? hahaha thats so awesome!
ReplyDeleteI agree! The light are my fav part this time of year!
ReplyDeletesweet sweet!
Oh, that dress is so beautiful! I get what you mean about feeling like Neapolitan ice cream! And the last photograph is magical.
ReplyDeleteAdore that dress on both you and Sandra.
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you have the most amazing dress collection of anyone ive ever seen, this one is my favourite so far!! :)
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we had similar windows in charleston at LV. i love the last picture - im sure you will return again soon :)
ReplyDeleteThis is incredible! Everything (including you) looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos. I love that dress!
ReplyDeleteWould you believe that we have the same Louis Vuitton shopfront display all the way over in Brisbane, Australia! It's certainly very bright and pretty.
ReplyDeleteYour dress is so lovely, a perfect fit for sure!
Gorgeous photos. i like your outfit...
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that dress looks adorable on you!
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very cute outfit and moment
ReplyDeleteoh wow, these photos are truely beautiful. I love the plain white lights, there just so beautiful by themself
ReplyDeletecool photography..
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you're so beautiful :D
OMG - you were at the Hale Koa! I was under that same tree just two months ago. I hope you enjoyed your stay.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back to WA :-)
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that is such a pretty dress, rebecca. your pretty attire inspired me to look at every dress at modcloth. i even added a couple of their dresses to my shopping cart and literally had closed the browser i was using to keep myself from buying them.
ReplyDeletegorgeous! i have christmas lights (permanently) snaking along my wall in my room...
ReplyDeletei love the lights ( so does my sister)
ReplyDeletethe dress look AWESOME ON YOU!
Beyoooootiful dress! Love your blog.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! And that dress is quite pastry like. I do hope you'll be able to return to Hawaii one day! Especially around Christmas when the lights look this gorgeous
ReplyDeletewow! i love the christmas lights! your outfit is just darling!
ReplyDeleteThat dress is so cute! I like the ghostly shoe picture, as well. I definitely wouldn't mind a chance to visit Hawaii, although I suspect it would be wasted on me, since I'm not much of a beach person.
ReplyDeletesigh i love chrissy lights - gorgeous dress :)
ReplyDeleteHawaii seems magical and especially during the holidays with all the lights and warm weather during winter. :D
ReplyDeletewow those pictures are magical! especially that last one with the reflection (: you are looking lovely as always!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely adorable dress! And such lovely pictures too. I love all the lights and golden tones.
ReplyDeleteyour dress is so cute.. love the pics you take in hawaii! =)
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both sandra and you make the dress so incredibly dream, the way its background its set up perfectly, i really need to visit countries that celebreates christmas heavily, and experience all of the blinging lights!
ReplyDeleteOh wow, the lights are so incredibly beautiful!
ReplyDeleteOh what lovely photos! So atmospheric.
ReplyDeleteI do like that dress. It's gorgeous. Jen is right, it reminds me of ice cream too.
So beautiful, you are lucky to see Christmas like this :) The dress is cute too.
ReplyDeleteI'm not very fond of the color pink either, but the dress is adorable and I love the second last picture, looks magic!
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Such pretty photographs. Love the dress.
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Pretty lights, pretty dress, pretty photos!
ReplyDeleteThose ligts are beautiful. I've never seen a tree lit up to every branch like that. I guess they're just lazy around here.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful dress too!
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the dress is so wonderful! you look awesome under all those fantastic lights! i'm glad you had a great time in hawaii :D
ReplyDeleteoooh its so beautiful with all the lights!!!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
The dress is adorable... and I'm still craving for those shoes.
ReplyDeletewaw ur so adorable :D
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I loooove Christmas lights! That modcloth dress is wonderful. One day, I will have to order something there. r
ReplyDeleteYou are a perfect pea in this dress! It suits you perfectttt ;]
ReplyDeleteWow, that last picture is divine! Great colors! That dress of yours will haunt my dreams tonight, I just fell in love with it <3
ReplyDeleteThose banyan trees are incredible. They do look very magical. And they really know how to wrap their trees in lights over there!
ReplyDeleteSuch gorgeous Christmas lights !! I love all the colors and the tree filled with all those lights,I love it all.
ReplyDeleteOhhhh,I sure know this dress from Sandra! Both yourself and her wears it perfectly. Perfect with those studded flats too<3
I love your pictures!
ReplyDeleteI find Lv very annoying but I really like this year's window displays!
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I love Honolulu during the holidays. Glad to be home, Seattle was cooooooold! Too bad I didn't have the chance to run into you.
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely location to take some pics.
ReplyDeleteLove your outfit, and that last picture is just magical.
ReplyDeleteThat dress seems perfect for Hawaii. I hope I get a chance to visit there someday... it looks so enchanted, especially this time of year. Love all your colorful photos! My eyes are thirsty for color in this New England white out we're having. o_O Have a safe and happy Christmas back home!
ReplyDeleteThose lights are so beautiful!The dress is too :)
ReplyDeletegorgeous dress and pictures of the lights! wish i was there to see them in person!
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These pictures are great! I especially like the last one, where the tree's reflection almost looks like flames. Cute Neapolitan dress. :)
ReplyDeleteYou're right about those banyan trees looking magical. It's like someone turned a willow into an entwife readying herself for marriage, stringing herself with crystals and stars.
ReplyDeleteThank you for these shots.
Nate and I would love to move to Hawaii in a few years, and this only gives me more motivation to go. I'm glad you were able to visit. It must be terrible having to miss such a place.
And yet wonderful, because you have such rich memories of living there.
Christmas in Hawaii is definitely an experience. Always fun to see lights draped around a palm tree! And I think it's lovely to think that it's all just an "opening act" for New Year's, which people tend to celebrate more. But I do love the traditional Christmas feel of holidays in the Northwest, with all the trees and frosty chill.
ReplyDeleteLOVE the dress! it's perfect!
ReplyDeletegorgeous dress! i love those trees encrusted with lights. they're so beautiful.
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