Some lighthouse/seacore aesthetic activities that don’t get spoken about enough (Pt 1/?)
- learning crochet (to knit sweaters for yourself and your cats)
- playing cards
- writing letters, journals, stories, poems, songs. anything and everything
- wearing that vintage sea captain hat and never taking it off
- pretending you’re an old sea captain and journalling your voyages and adventures on ship
- playing board games
- pressing wildflowers in old biology textbooks
- bicycling to the city for new books
- having a sublime rock collection
- rocking on your rocking chair for hours just petting your cat
- having countless vintage collectible books on entomology and ornithology
- having a seashell collection
- play with your cats
- go paddling off the shore once in a while
- bicycling to the closest seaside city for fresh bunches of flowers
- taking naps on your rocking chair
- teach yourself to draw insects, birds, fish
- learning folklore and folk songs for sea monsters from multiple languages/cultures
- having ivy and creepers flourishing on the windowsill
- picnicking on the shore, on the rocks
- dressing up in your grandparents’ vintage formal clothes and having fancy dinners with yourself and your cat
- baking
- hot chocolate with marshmallows
- reading letters from old friends
- taking long walks on the beach
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- always having a boiling kettle on the stove with fresh tea
- collecting different types of tea to try
- sewing kits
- writing letters to your friends and loved ones describing your life in minute detail
- teaching yourself embroidery
- owning a telescope and referring to guidebooks to spot constellations and planets at night
- writing long letters to your old professors/librarians/teachers
- owning paintings with sceneries of the sea and the sky
- owning too many woolen socks (but you just can’t get enough)
- books, obviously
- sliding across the floor with woolen socks because they’re cool
- clips and bows and ribbons in your hair
- wearing aprons on long skirts and nostalgic for your non-existent husband who died at sea (it’s a fantasy)
- owning too many horror and folktale books from all over the world
- learning to make sketches of the faces you’ve seen at night
- owning too many keys belonging to unknown locks
- owning books of asian ghost stories
- dissecting watches and clocks to learn the inner workings and fix them on your own
- painting with watercolours
- learning to play an instrument (preferably piano or violin)
- owning a record player and dancing to the old records in the living room
- learning to read water and weather
- learning to draw human anatomy and physiology
Feel free to add on!
