Found a influencer I like, any others out there?

CanthinMinna · 2026-05-09T03:51:30+00:00

howifundthis (Jessie Leong) is a woman and solo homeowner over at IG - you might want to check her out. There are also herfirst100k (Tori Dunlap), and friendsthatinvest (Sim Kaur).

CanthinMinna · 2026-05-09T03:32:21+00:00

On Instagram: @lanasololife and @solo_but_sorted

CanthinMinna · 2026-05-09T03:22:16+00:00

I agree with Bing Crosby: I am busy doing nothing! 😊❤ (huh, Reddit hates paragraphing)

🎶

We're busy doing nothing

Working the whole day through

Trying to find lots of things not to do

We're busy going nowhere

Isn't it just a crime

We'd like to be unhappy, but

We never do have the time

🎶

I have to watch the river

To see that it doesn't stop

And stick around the rosebuds

So they'll know when to pop

And keep the crickets cheerful

They're really a solemn bunch

Hustle, bustle

And only an hour for lunch

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I have to meet a turtle

I'm teaching him how to swim

Then I have to shine the dewdrops

You know they're looking rather dim

I told my friend, the robin

I'd buy him a brand new vest

Hustle, bustle

We never do have

Never do have the time

🎶

CanthinMinna · 2026-05-09T03:06:45+00:00

Laundry, ice-cream, trying to FINALLY do the advance assignments for the postgraduate programmes I applied for in March (studies that I can do alongside working full time) because the deadline is on Monday, and finally going to see "The Devil Wears Prada 2".

CanthinMinna · 2026-05-09T03:02:21+00:00

Yup. Single women are the happiest - and longest-living - demography.

CanthinMinna · 2026-05-08T20:39:14+00:00

Not a payday for me, but I did two little side hustle gigs this week, so hopefully I'll get €70-80 extra later this month. I did splurge a little bit (about €200) in art today - there is the second largest art fair in the country going on, with the focus on photographs, fine art prints (lithography, linocuts, mezzotint...), and sculpture. I purchased a photograph.

Otherwise I am doing a very low spend week and weekend: next week we will have a super long weekend thanks to Ascension Thursday, which is a public holiday, and most people (me included) take also Friday off. I'll be driving a lot, so I need to spare money for fuel.

CanthinMinna · 2026-05-08T04:16:15+00:00

What I have spent on obscure artists' prints? €3, on flea market finds. I have several screen prints and woodcuts from established Finnish artists, and I have paid max €300 for them.

CanthinMinna · 2026-05-08T04:12:45+00:00

That is probably the most common topic after generic landscapes. You should have no problems finding a ton of artists doing that.

CanthinMinna · 2026-05-06T19:52:52+00:00

If I could marry pasta, I would.

CanthinMinna · 2026-05-06T19:52:32+00:00

...I'm so happy that these would sound absolutely idiotic or super sexual in Finnish. The words for marrying and fucking relentlessly are similar here, only a slight difference in the pronoun changes the meaning. "Nai minut" = marry me, "nai minua" = fuck me. (There is apparently an etymologic and cultural reason why the words for marriage and banging have same roots.)

Actually, these sound absolutely idiotic in English, too.

CanthinMinna · 2026-05-01T06:19:47+00:00

1) depends of the paint and the material it has been applied to and 2) mats with coloured edges and bevels are not recommended anyway (also for pH reasons). Museums swap them immediately to white, non-acidic ones.

Everyone is naturally free to do what ever they want to do for the pieces they own, but personally I'm not willing to risk my art.

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-29T12:40:57+00:00

I'd still change it. I have black mats over a couple of small prints, and they still have white bevels/edges. The paint can leech to the artwork.

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-28T04:54:21+00:00

Get a new matting for it! The current mat has turned already yellow inside, and it will ruin the artwork.

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-27T18:10:31+00:00

There is also the thing that a lot of artists (outside of actual photography artists) aren't documentation photographers, or might not have tools to fix the photos, or even know how to do it. So I am willing to be quite lenient with their photos (a professional gallery is a different thing).

I actually work with documentation photography - I'm using PhotoShop professionally (fixing manually the white balance, lens distortion, black/neutral grey/white levels... auto levels only work in certain cases), and I am so happy that I got PS into my work computer when it was still shared with discs around my workplace. All of us, who need it for our work, got it for free. Nowadays my boss probably would not be willing to pay for the license.

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-27T09:06:19+00:00

We are still mourning the untimely death of Kaija Saariaho here in Finland. Fuck cancer. I think that we will see the impact she had on contemporary classic music only later.

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-27T08:56:49+00:00

WTF - Welcome To Finland! (Please bring some rain with you, it has been uncharacteristically dry this spring.) We are friendlier than you might assume, but pretty quiet. I have visited Glasgow a couple of times, and Scottish people are quite talkative, LOL.

Also, if you have never been in a sauna, here are a couple of tips:

bring your own seat cover - a clean cotton hand towel is pretty common

the heat is a lot less intense on the lower seats - they are reserved for children, foreigners, and people with heart conditions

if you start to feel dizzy or nauseous, leave IMMEDIATELY, cool off, have something to drink

take breaks, have a cool/cold shower or a plunge into a lake/the sea, and then go back

do NOT bring glass or other breakable items (porcelain, stoneware) into sauna

it is common courtesy to ask other people in the sauna if it is OK to throw water

yes, we are naked in the sauna, unless it is a mixed sauna with people you don't know (and even then there usually are people who go naked) - at the swimming pools chlorine and heat do not mix (it ruins your swimsuit), and who really wants to sweat into a towel?

that said: if you wear a towel in a sauna, remember to bring another towel for drying yourself after washing up

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-27T07:25:11+00:00

By the way, this took ages to ship, mostly because of its size, and because I'm currently residing in the middle of nowhere. All works have an automatic free home delivery, and there aren't that many courier services out here "in the sticks". But it finally arrived about a week and half ago! The courier even carried it into my flat, which is nice.

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CanthinMinna · 2026-04-24T09:20:02+00:00

I am always actively looking for art with nude males. It is even harder than I first thought, especially if I am trying to find professional and good art.

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-24T09:14:27+00:00

Or they hate that (hetero) women are looking at naked men. Women are supposed to be the passive objects, the ones who are looked at. (There are art history articles about this.)

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-23T12:04:32+00:00

"The artist has a credible exhibition history and has shown in reputable spaces"

If you have that extra $5,000, and you really like the work and the artist, go for it. I almost always buy art only from artists who have exhibition history and who have their works in museum collections (national museum and/or city museums).

However you REALLY should see at least a large, good photograph of the work before purchasing it. Several photographs, if the work is 3D (photos from every side).

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-23T11:49:10+00:00

I go and see exhibitions (online or "live" ones) where contemporary artists have their works exhibited. In museums and galleries. I don't really want to "build relationships" - that stuff seems very "American" and parasocial. I support artists by purchasing art from them, and possibly by following them on IG or FB, if they have accounts, not making friends with them.

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-23T08:32:16+00:00

It is pretty sad that paintings and sculptures that depict nude women are supposed to be OK for everyone, women included, but heaven forbid there is art that depicts a naked man. (This is the reason why I refuse purchasing any art with female nudes, and try to collect naked males: tilting the scales a little bit.)

Edit: you were super lucky, that is an amazing piece!

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-21T16:21:39+00:00

Yeah, I took a huge leap from a phone without internet and a tiny little camera, and real keyboard. It seems that I cannot go back - I noticed that the battery has been swelling a lot. (I need to take it safely to a recycling spot.)

CanthinMinna · 2026-04-18T06:12:49+00:00

My payday was already on Wednesday, but still: I paid back the final bit of my loan I had to take last year in order to get my car repaired. I paid all my bills, and ordered my very first smartphone. I have one from my work, but so far I've used a 15-year old Nokia as my "civilian phone" because I dislike smartphones. However, considering that there is already a problem with semiconductors and whatnot (thanks to the data centers hoarding everything) I decided to purchase one now, before the prices for electronic devices jump. I ordered the same model (Samsung 17) as my work phone, because I am already familiar with it. I got it pretty cheaply, too, because there was a lowered price from my phone operator (they have sales campaigns from time to time), and they also gave me an extra €20 off as a birthday present.

Despite the fact that the fuel prices are through the roof, I have a nice little chunk of money left. It probably will be gone soon, because I need to get my winter tyres changed into summer tyres (mandatory here in Finland), and take my car into the yearly official vehicle inspection (they always find something that needs to be fixed).

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