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Kirsty Hall
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Artist & purveyor of obsessive projects. Scots bi feminist with MECFS. Had arse cancer, it was tedious but it's fixed now. Cis/her. No terfs or fash. Insta: kirstyhallartist/
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OK, despite me slightly messing up the dough, this was absolutely bloody delicious!

Tastes a lot like an apple doughnut but without the hassle of frying.
A piece of brown butter apple fritter focaccia bread on a white plate in front of a bookshelf.
December 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Today’s focaccia is Brown Butter Apple Fritter Focaccia. First time I’ve tried this so fingers crossed.

Recipe here: www.instagram.com/p/DO59qDxjIjR/
Raw focaccia dough covered in apple, cinnamon and brown butter mix.
December 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Bought this wee photography cube yonks ago but never got round to trying it. Rather irritated that I haven’t been using it because it’s actually pretty good, although only work for small things. But it does mean I might be able to photograph at night, which is great at this time of year.
A white pop-up photography cube with built-in lights. There’s a small artist’s book set up in the centre. A grey and green artist’s book. A grey and green artist’s book. A grey and green artist’s book.
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Reminder: your phone camera has a lens and it can get very grubby!

Photo 1: before cleaning
Photo 2: after cleaning
A very soft blurred image of a black and white art card. A much sharper image of the same black and white art card after the phone lens has been cleaned.
September 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The bookshelves in question - they’re by a company called BrickBox and they were a pricy indulgence and I still love them SO MUCH.
White modular bookshelves, with most of the shelves facing outward for books and ornaments and some turned inward to my studio.
June 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Lacey Ostermann’s brown butter cinnamon roll focaccia. This recipe isn’t in her book but you can find it online. @catvincent.bsky.social declared this one ‘a real winner’ and I thought it was delicious too.
Cinnamon focaccia sliced up on a cooling rack.
June 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Made focaccia using the Lacey Ostermann recipe from her book 3 Doughs, 60 recipes. I didn’t quite nail it (my dough was slightly too soft, so it’s denser and flatter than it should be) but it’s very definitely bread rather than flatbread and it tastes delicious. A successful first experiment.
A loaf of golden brown focaccia bread. It has been cut open and is sitting on parchment paper.
June 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I’ve not been great at posting my art lately (I’ve still been making every day but not documenting so well) but I’m trying to get back to it both here and over on Instagram.

Here’s a completed page in my collage journal.
A blue and green stencilled gel printed journal page with collaged elements. A torn rectangular piece of vintage music paper covered with white gesso forms the base for the focal point, a stamped bird covered with clear crackle paste and brown ink. The focal point is connected to music paper with two bronze coloured brads. Sweeping pencil lines are drawn from the music paper to some raised stencilled ovals from the gel printing. A close up of the music paper and bird focal point. A close up of the crackled and stamped bird focal point. A close up of the gel printed ovals and pencil drawing.
February 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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More finished Happenstance cards. This is a lockdown project that got a little out of hand - these are cards 452-455 in the ongoing series! All made from blank business cards measuring 5.5 x 8.5 cms
A blue-green art card with brown gritty edges. To the righthand side and orientated vertically is a piece of white washi tape with two lines of black dashes on it. Over that and towards the bottom of the card is a larger cream and black washi sticker with black French writing on it. The later is orientated horizontally so it intersects with the underlying washi tape. Both sets of washi tape are slightly translucent. A turquoise blue art card with black edges and black details. Towards the lefthand side is a black circular rub on, drawn incised lines and tiny dots come off the circle in a rough cross shape, they are filled in with black paint. There is additional texture from translucent white wax paint. A pale blue and brown art card. On the righthand side is crackle paste over stencilled letters made with copper embossing powder. The whole card is knocked back with white gesso and translucent white wax paint. Towards the bottom and centre of the card is the focal point, a white word sticker with the word ‘gently’ printed in black. A brown art card. On the lefthand side is a speckled pattern made with stencilled crackle paste. Horizontally over the card is a strip of translucent glassine paper stamped with metallic lettering. The paper is reversed so the writing is unintelligible. It is held in place with a copper coloured hexagonal brad.
December 4, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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A finished page in my Scraps journal. I do love those angular Letraset quotation marks.
A completed page in my Scraps journal. The background is white and dark purple-blue covered with raised, white texture paste through a stencil with a pebble pattern. In a clear space in the lower centre is the focal point: three sets of very angular, black, Letraset quotation marks. A completed page in my Scraps journal. The background is white and dark purple-blue covered with raised, white texture paste through a stencil with a pebble pattern. In a clear space in the lower centre is the focal point: three sets of very angular, black, Letraset quotation marks. A completed page in my Scraps journal. The background is white and dark purple-blue covered with raised, white texture paste through a stencil with a pebble pattern. In a clear space in the lower centre is the focal point: three sets of very angular, black, Letraset quotation marks. A completed page in my Scraps journal. The background is white and dark purple-blue covered with raised, white texture paste through a stencil with a pebble pattern. In a clear space in the lower centre is the focal point: three sets of very angular, black, Letraset quotation marks.
December 2, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Today’s art is an unusually empty art journal page. I don’t often use this much white space but I just couldn’t bear to lose that gorgeous ink stain with all its lovely colour separation and oxidation.
A completed art journal spread in my regular art journal. The background is mostly white with a large, drippy ink stain horizontally across the centre of the two pages. The stain is mostly brown separating and oxidising out into blues, yellows and pinks. Over the ink stain there’s some wiggly brown pen drawing in the shape of a cross. The focal point is a leftover pink die-cut slide (like an old photograph) with brown ink on the edges to add some ageing. In the centre is a vintage headshot of a white Edwardian woman with curled hair piled up on her head: she is looking downwards demurely. The photo is printed on vellum, so it is slightly translucent. On the rest of the slide and aligned vertically, is black lettering that reads, ‘Lost + Found’. The focal point is placed over the vertical drawn line on the righthand side of the spread. A close up of the focal point. The focal point is a leftover pink die-cut slide (like an old photograph) with brown ink on the edges to add some ageing. In the centre is a vintage headshot of a white Edwardian woman with curled hair piled up on her head: she is looking downwards demurely. The photo is printed on vellum, so it is slightly translucent. On the rest of the slide and aligned vertically, is black lettering that reads, ‘Lost + Found’. The focal point is placed over the vertical drawn line on the righthand side of the spread. A close up showing the ink stain with horizontal brown pen drawing. The background is mostly white with a large, drippy ink stain horizontally across the centre of the two pages. The stain is mostly brown separating and oxidising out into blues, yellows and pinks. Over the ink stain there’s some wiggly brown pen drawing in the shape of a cross. A close up of the focal point showing the ink stain and pen drawing behind it. The focal point is a leftover pink die-cut slide (like an old photograph) with brown ink on the edges to add some ageing. In the centre is a vintage headshot of a white Edwardian woman with curled hair piled up on her head: she is looking downwards demurely. The photo is printed on vellum, so it is slightly translucent. On the rest of the slide and aligned vertically, is black lettering that reads, ‘Lost + Found’. The focal point is placed over the vertical drawn line on the righthand side of the spread.
November 26, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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Time for some more art. Another finished page in my Scraps journal.
A completed page in my Scraps journal. The background is made from paper collage and texture paste and coloured with blue, pink and brown inks, including some subtle glitter from brown and blue mica sprays. In three corners there are cobblestone patterns made with crackle paste through a stencil. Around the edge of the page, there are faint dark brown stamped lines to draw the eye into the page. On the lower lefthand quadrant is the focal point, a black rub-on that says, ‘registered’. A completed page in my Scraps journal. The background is made from paper collage and texture paste and coloured with blue, pink and brown inks, including some subtle glitter from brown and blue mica sprays. In three corners there are cobblestone patterns made with crackle paste through a stencil. Around the edge of the page, there are faint dark brown stamped lines to draw the eye into the page. On the lower lefthand quadrant is the focal point, a black rub-on that says, ‘registered’. A completed page in my Scraps journal. The background is made from paper collage and texture paste and coloured with blue, pink and brown inks, including some subtle glitter from brown and blue mica sprays. In three corners there are cobblestone patterns made with crackle paste through a stencil. Around the edge of the page, there are faint dark brown stamped lines to draw the eye into the page. On the lower lefthand quadrant is the focal point, a black rub-on that says, ‘registered’. A completed page in my Scraps journal. The background is made from paper collage and texture paste and coloured with blue, pink and brown inks, including some subtle glitter from brown and blue mica sprays. In three corners there are cobblestone patterns made with crackle paste through a stencil. Around the edge of the page, there are faint dark brown stamped lines to draw the eye into the page. On the lower lefthand quadrant is the focal point, a black rub-on that says, ‘registered’.
November 23, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Another finished journal page, this time in my Scraps journal.

This is a journal where I use up some of my waste paper, so many pages, including this one, have paper collaged into the background as texture.
A finished page in my Scraps journal. The colours are browns and white. There is a background of randomly collaged paper scraps on the base layer. Over that on most of the page but slightly to the left, there is white crackle paste through a stencil in a pattern is slightly organic, clustered horizontal lines. On the lower right edge of the stencilling is the focal point, a small fragment of torn commercial collage paper with snippets of vintage paper, music paper and an old map. It has the phrase, ‘little things’ in the centre in black block capitals on a white background. The torn edges of the fragment are inked in brown. A finished page in my Scraps journal. The colours are browns and white. There is a background of randomly collaged paper scraps on the base layer. Over that on most of the page but slightly to the left, there is white crackle paste through a stencil in a pattern is slightly organic, clustered horizontal lines. On the lower right edge of the stencilling is the focal point, a small fragment of torn commercial collage paper with snippets of vintage paper, music paper and an old map. It has the phrase, ‘little things’ in the centre in black block capitals on a white background. A finished page in my Scraps journal. The colours are browns and white. There is a background of randomly collaged paper scraps on the base layer. Over that on most of the page but slightly to the left, there is white crackle paste through a stencil in a pattern is slightly organic, clustered horizontal lines. On the lower right edge of the stencilling is the focal point, a small fragment of torn commercial collage paper with snippets of vintage paper, music paper and an old map. It has the phrase, ‘little things’ in the centre in black block capitals on a white background. A finished page in my Scraps journal. The colours are browns and white. There is a background of randomly collaged paper scraps on the base layer. Over that on most of the page but slightly to the left, there is white crackle paste through a stencil in a pattern is slightly organic, clustered horizontal lines. On the lower right edge of the stencilling is the focal point, a small fragment of torn commercial collage paper with snippets of vintage paper, music paper and an old map. It has the phrase, ‘little things’ in the centre in black block capitals on a white background.
November 21, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Two completed pages in my collage journal. This is one of my favourite journals to work in.
Two pages in my collage journal. The background colours on both pages are pale blues, greens, creams and browns. The lefthand page has a vertical band of stencilled texture paste covered in loosely woven textile bandage. Over that there is a torn piece of scrap paper covered with various mediums and then a butterfly stamped over the top of it. The righthand page has crumpled tissue paper over the background, the focal point is two Japanese washi tape stickers and a bronze coloured Tim Holtz hex fastener.
November 21, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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OK, let’s try this with an image.

This is a finished page in my monochrome journal. More details in the alt text and more images on my Instagram.
A black and white page with a ribcage stencilled in white texture paste in the centre. There are straight white drawn lines around and through the skeleton, anchoring and framing it. The word ‘troubled’ is in black lettering in the lower righthand quadrant.
November 20, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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#proofOfCat
Luna will only sit on my lap if a cushion is provided.
Luna, a small female tortoiseshell cat sitting on a cushion on a lap. She is staring off into the distance.
November 10, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Happy Halloween!
Image description: a window with a Halloween scene of a spooky gothic house, a cemetery with grass and tombstones, a witch with cauldron, a tree and various bats. Green fairy lights, flickering electric candles and black and cream muslin frame and light up the scene. Image description: a window with a Halloween scene of a spooky gothic house, a cemetery with grass and tombstones, a witch with cauldron, a tree and various bats. Green fairy lights, flickering electric candles and black and cream muslin frame and light up the scene. Image description: a window with a Halloween scene of a spooky gothic house, a cemetery with grass and tombstones, a witch with cauldron, a tree and various bats. Green fairy lights, flickering electric candles and black and cream muslin frame and light up the scene. Image description: a window with a Halloween scene of a spooky gothic house, a cemetery with grass and tombstones, a witch with cauldron, a tree and various bats. Green fairy lights, flickering electric candles and black and cream muslin frame and light up the scene.
October 31, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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The current state of play showing the terraced beds made from recycled plastic timber. It’s very skeletal right now, it’s going to be clad with blue painted wood.

The next visit will be putting the plastic baseboards on, getting the gravel back down and topping up with manure and more soil.
New raised beds filled with soil. They still need their timber cladding but are structurally sound now. Looking along the front edge of the garden. New raised beds filled with soil and with orange safety tape along the front. They still need their timber cladding but are structurally sound now. The current view from the garden bench showing the steep angles of the space and the new terraced beds.
October 7, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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During the build, it’s much further on now.
Rebuilding the garden - partially built terraced raised beds are filled with soil, sacks of soil and stones line the boundary. Orange safety tape cordons everything off. Rebuilding the garden - partially built terraced raised beds are filled with soil, sacks of soil and stones line the boundary. Orange safety tape cordons everything off.
October 4, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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Before:
A falling down roof garden with a rickety blue slatted fence. Falling down raised garden beds. The green painted wood is disintegrating and the plants and soil are starting to spill onto the stone paths. Falling down raised garden beds. The green painted wood is disintegrating and the plants and soil are starting to spill onto the stone paths.
October 4, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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Success!

Bought Luna a cat bed to stop her stealing my computer bag and after some initial suspicion, she’s actually using it.
Luna, a tortoiseshell cat, lying on her new grey fluffy cat bed in front of bookshelves.
August 5, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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Oh, did you want your computer bag? Tough, it’s my cat bed now!
Luna, a tortoiseshell cat, asleep on a cream canvas bag that she’s squashed down. There are a laptop and a bottle next to her.
August 3, 2024 at 11:36 AM
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Luna loves to touch her people. If she’s near one of us, she’ll almost always be making body contact. It’s very adorable.
Luna, a female tortoiseshell cat lies on a bedside table, her paw is touching Kirsty’s arm.
July 3, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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Our Luna says hello to your Luna.
June 24, 2024 at 4:00 PM