Twilight walks...

 Island dreaming.... is this a sign??

This winter has seemed so mild... I don't even need my winter coat most days.  Doesn't stop me wishing for summer though...

Tara

Tribal Friday...

Tribal Friday - celebrating all that is handmade and exotic and colourful.  Oooh I do like Tribal Friday.

Here we go... Pink Hmong tribal bag from Habibi - my favourite Moroccan/Tribal shop in Melbourne...

Detail with Kuchi necklace and Tibetan prayer beads...

Altar cloth detail from Thailand with a big chunk of rose quartz from our holiday to Byron...

Tibetan temple hanging...

Afghani tassels...

Indian mirror with Ganesh, Buddha, Tara and Durga miniatures...



Little Phoebe on an Indian kantha quilt (even Pheebs is partaking in Tribal Friday!)...

However she much prefers a crochet rug for snoozing (so blissed out by crochet that she is oblivious to that mouse sneaking up on her)...

Indian kantha quilt (minus the fluffy one) and Indian cushions...

Indian wooden elephant with South African bead adornment with a Sri Lankan mini elephant all on a vintage doily....

Yesterday's jewels...

A henna artist's staple... Bindis!

I love doing henna for a job, but I also love the mad outfits that I get to wear too.  Here we have Javadhu powder (natural perfume), bindis, Afghani and Indian jewellery...

A tribal outfit requires a tribal bag... luckily I'm well stocked!

Silk skirts... a costume staple...

I love embroidered clothes...

My workroom with Tribal Banjara skirt (for those special henna events) and a blue wrap skirt which I have just finished for my Etsy store ...

Tribal tassel hangs with a Nomadic Tara heart...

 

Peacock feather and a dream flag from my store...

Feathers collected from Montsalvat and Saraswati figurine...

Indian painted pot with African lady stone statue (bought back from Africa by Mr Tara many moons ago)...

Hope you enjoyed Tribal Friday, happy weekend everybody!

Tara

Phoebe's got the blues...

Our little Phoebe's had the blues the last couple of days...

Not her usual sweet self... aloof and looking all sad...scared to go outside (well she's not the most confident outdoors anyway)...

 Of course she can't tell us what's wrong...

So we gave her plenty of "sit on our lap" time and looked for signs of our little fluffball's sweet nature to emerge...

Today is much better - she's snoozing in the sun after a big breakfast of something fishy from a can.

Who'd of thought cats could get the blues? 

 

Tara

Time for Tea...

How's this for a colourful tea shop?  Every time I visit this store the colours, textures and the smell of all the different tea blends make me smile...

If you were buying one (which sadly I wasn't!), which one would you choose???  I would have gone pink... no wait... blue... oh I don't know, they're all pretty.



Pile upon pile of shiny cups and saucers...

Patterns and colours put together with wild abandon...

Makes this a very nice place to be...

 

Tara

Winter sunshine...

The winter sun is out, and flooding my table with light.  So I got the peacock feathers out...

Tibetan Chenrezig statue...

Saraswati, the Indian Goddess of music and the arts, an Indian woodblock and my henna design in ink on a river stone...

 

Indian woodblock...

A geode from our holiday in Byron Bay last month...

Amethyst geode on a vintage Indian sari in the most exquisite of peacock colours...

Happy Tuesday - enjoy the winter sun if you are in Melbourne!

Tara

Colour and candlelight...

Last night my henna buddy Shannon and her lovely man came over for dinner.  I dressed the house up in its candlelit finest since Shannon is my tribal sister from way back, and she always enjoys a bit of nutso effort in the decoration department...

Indian lanterns...

Goddess Tara...

Tara, Indian woodblocks, Tibetan Mala beads and one of my henna designs on a river stone...

Nomadic Tara henna candle burns long into the night...

Mr Tara built this entryway into our house (so clever!)...

Dinner table all set with vintage linens and Indian lanterns...

It turned a normal old Monday into something really fun and I even had my hand hennaed (such a treat for me since I'm always hennaing other people)....  I did the glitter one on Shannon's wrist with my new peacock coloured glitter...

I love this design by Shannon - so special!

Phoebe was all worn out from having people in the house - since she's a shelter cat she can be prone to being a scaredy cat when people come over - afterwards she collapsed in her blanket on the sofa and snoozed the night away...

Happy days at Nomadic Tara HQ...

Tara