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Asking For Trouble is the crafty pseudonym of Marceline Smith, an artist and designer based in Glasgow, Scotland. I make handmade fabric purses, jewellery, stationery and accessories inspired by Japan.

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Pretty Things on Poppytalk Handmade

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

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Top: Little Black Rabbit, Nice, Cabin & Cub
Middle: La Pomme, Loot by Stina, Sirena con Jersey
Bottom: Papeiraarre, Abigail Paper, F2 Images
I’ve been have a good browse around the stalls of my fellow designers at this month’s Poppytalk Handmade market and there […]

Asking For Trouble at e&a clothing

Monday, April 28th, 2008

e&a clothing is a lovely little shop in the West End of Glasgow which sells a range of pretty products by independent designers and graduates both from the local area and nationally. I’m very pleased to say that Asking For Trouble is now one of these designers so you can now pop in and browse […]

What did I get in the mail this week?

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

First in an infrequent series.

Vintage ’sparkle’ buttons from eBay
During my vintage button drought panic, I hopped on to eBay and snapped up a bunch of cool vintage buttons from a seller in the US. I got a small sack of random buttons for brooches and then saw these and had to have them too. When […]

Wishlist (Etsy bunny edition)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Bunnies, bunnies! I just LOVE bunnies and I can’t help myself. There are some bunny families who live in the campus I (used to) work in and I have spent many a happy walk break stalking them and cooing in delight at the tiny pocket sized baby bunnies. Maybe one day I will have my […]

Shop Indie: The Smallest Giraffe

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

The Smallest Giraffe is a very cute Etsy shop based in Houston. I spotted her Happy Shapes brooches somewhere on the interweb last year and had to pick up a couple for Christmas gifts for my bestest buddies Claire & Jo of Miso Funky. When they arrived they were even cuter than I expected and […]

Wishlist

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Or Things I Want (and can’t have). I used to do this on my other blog but I think I will do it here since I am almost always lusting after handmade indie things, and Japanese kawaii of course.

Knit cardigan and dress by Love Margo.
If I had £150 to spare I’d be right in here. […]

Etsy Joy

Friday, December 14th, 2007

There’s a new widget in my sidebar (that’s a song title if ever I heard one), you may notice. It shows items from my favourite Etsy shops for things like Japanese fabric and craft books, gocco printers and supplies, vintage buttons and general kawaii. I have used most of the sellers that I will be […]

Shop Indie: Chocolate Swirl

Friday, September 21st, 2007

The best thing about being part of the Gifted exhibition is that I’ve had to buy more amazing fabrics so that I would have twenty different purses. Etsy really is a wonder for this. I can’t remember what I was searching for but I found lots of new cute fabric sellers setting up shop. […]

Shop Indie: Sakura Fabric

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

If I had to pick one thing as the greatest part of selling my crafts online it’s that it provides me with both money and an excuse to buy lots of amazing Japanese fabric. I really am obsessed but at least I pass a good part of it on to my customers and don’t […]

Shop Indie: re:makeables

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

re:makeables is a lovely online shop based in Malaysia selling amazing Japanese fabrics, trims and books plus handmade buttons and beads. Everything is gorgeous and they specialise in pretty flower and cute animal patterns. I had a browse a while back and spotted some adorable trim with bunnies and flowers which was sadly sold out. […]

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