Gypsy finds her way as Cherie Shambala

At present my business is open ,the markets have closed so I am online I have very beautiful Alpaca Blankets from Peru, Yak Blankets from Nepal, amazing Kashmiri Wraps from Kashmir. Bright Covers from Guatemala. Huge variety of amazing accessories, hats and bags and purses in felting ,hemp, leather.I have handpicked everythingI have. I love travel and shopping and people.Some of the exotic places I have been even in Baghdad. I really look forward to your enquiries. We can chat and I can show you some of the amazing items I have. Very unique and some of the Items nobody has in Australia. My website is only a peak of what I have. You can ring 0434900675 or email me shambalashoponwheels@gmail.com you will love what I have.So give me a chance you won’t be sorry.!

My life is a bit ‘out there’, like me, but I love it!

Growing up on Sydney’s northern beaches in the Sixties was amazing - the bands, the colour, the freedom, the beach. Then it went out the window, like my bra. I joined the navy and went to freezing Victoria. Discipline and more discipline. “Hey wait a minute, where is Cherie and her adventurous spirit?!”

That was when I discovered Melbourne clothes shopping, the beautiful designs that just suited a shopaholic. I was a ‘Skinny Minny’, and at 17 years old I could wear anything and did! Then I was sent to the tropics - Darwin, Northern Territory. I cut holes in my mini dresses and had matching knickers. I really thought I was something until I saw the Americans in Smith Street, wearing ten-gallon hats, boots and spurs (they were leasing 1,000-acre properties). I thought a spaceship had landed.

Darwin was the place: drifters, seasonal workers, travellers. All nationalities talking about their homelands gave me the travel bug.
I did trips to Asia while on leave with the Navy. The day I left the navy 4 years later, I was in Singapore. Then I went off to Thailand and Nepal. It was 1973 and full of hippies. Amazing Kathmandu, the beautiful people and the Himalayas. I went overland on an old bus which taking three months to get to London. Wow, the old hippy trail through the Khyber pass, such incredible diversity, then across the Bosporus to European Turkey. It was amazing. 21 years old and the world was yours. I had a ball.

I traveled Europe, took a job dancing in the Middle East for a year, hitchhiked all over Europe and North Africa, then worked in Belgium. Still loving clothes, diversity, fashion. Fashion was all the rage in London and I loved it. I always loved clothes and colour.

I traveled to 55 countries, met amazing people, married twice, and had my beautiful son Joel (at present he is in Holland with his girlfriend whom he met surfing in Morocco - like mother like son!). I saw such amazing differences in the world from New Guinea to Cuba, Nepal to Argentina.

I woke up one day and said “I have a dream”: to travel the world and handpick beautiful clothing and accessories, fulfilling my passions of travel and shopping and bringing them back to Australia. At markets and online. And perhaps take my Prado and camper on a roadtrip at 64 years old. I deserve it. And guess what guys: I am still a little ‘out there’. But oh, what fun I have!!!
My husband thinks I am a little weird, and he could be right.

Luv ya
Cherie

I AM EXTREMELY GRATEFUL FOR MY LIFE MY FAMILY AND MY GORGEOUS FRIENDS. LIFE IS AND HAS BEEN GOOD TO ME CHALLENGING AT TIMES I THINK WE HAVE ALL BEEN THROUGH THAT. I LOVE THE VILLAGE WHERE I LIVE UKI IN THE NORTHERN RIVERS, THE DIVERSITY SPIRITUALLY AND MUSIC. TRAVEL IS STILL AMAZING AND SUCH A BLESSING IN AND OUT OF AUSTRALIA NAMASTE CHERIE SHAMBALA