Eye of Thee

02/09/2026

Packing another order for the Top End 🐊, this time to a rendition of JaJaLaLa Poopie sung by my 2 year old. 😅

28/08/2026

My sister and I have started a YouTube Channel (and Instagram Page) to document our move to our traditional homelands. Give our pages a follow if you’d like to see what we’re up to. We’ve just started filming, so content will be uploaded in real time 🫶🏾

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/yay.yaye?utm_source=qr

YouTube Channel:
https://youtube.com/?si=dQE5N_dsjkpV1zMW

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Werte Yaye!

Yaye means sister in Arrernte…and that’s exactly who we are.

We’re Cassa and Shanna Hayes, Arrernte sisters sharing life on Country in Central Australia.

Yay Yayes follows our journey back to our traditional homelands, cleaning up, fixing things, creating, learning, homesteading and figuring things out as we go.

Expect a bit of everything: Country, art, family, culture, DIY projects, fixing old things, making new things, plenty of red dirt and probably a fair bit of sisterly chaos along the way.

Two Yayes. On Country. Plenty to do. 🤎

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20/08/2026

✨💅🏽 What a trio

17/08/2026

Days like these 😍 *chefs kiss*

17/08/2026

How good do these look packaged together?! Necklace and Ring (along with some other Sparkles) on its way to T.B from Vic. Thank you for your support, it means so much!! ❤️💛🖤

16/08/2026

125 years ago, my ancestors doing a Welcome To Country.

Location is Trigg Hill, Mparntwe (Alice Springs)

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Arrernte welcoming dance .
Entrance to the stranglers.
Alice Springs 9 may 1901.
Photo Baldwin Spencer.

15/08/2026

50th Anniversary National NAIDOC Awards in Mparntwe! How lucky are we??? So amazing, well done to everyone involved.

15/08/2026

Please give my country-mens wooden artifacts a look at https://traditionalcraft.com.au 🖤💛❤️
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We are a group of proud Arrernte men from Ltyentye Apurte and the founders of the Ltyentye Apurte Traditional Craft Centre.

We started the Traditional Craft centre (Tcc) because we were witnessing our culture and traditions being lost. The skills that we are revitalising skipped our fathers generation. We learnt and honed these skills directly from our grandparents.

We are proud to have started using these traditional skills once again and are sharing our knowledge with the next generation.

You can support us by purchasing our handmade traditional craft. Plz visit our page/ website for more details. Or if you want to see;touch and feel plz visit our workshop at Santa Teresa which is 80 kms from Alice Springs. We are there Mon to Fri 9:00 am -4:00 pm.

Purchases made on this website go to directly supporting artists, their families and the community allowing them to pass on this knowledge to future generations.

Kele ….

Traditional craft centre


Desert Mob

The Traditional Craft Centre is a 100% Arrernte owned Aboriginal Art Centre in Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) NT specialising in the art of making wooden tools, instruments and weapons.