COUNTIN' CROWS - ...gathering my thoughts

Well what a lovely day I had yesterday when I once again caught up with my friend Karen and we "terrorised" the Blue Mountains, scouring some more antique shops for some "fabby" finds! Some of the items are from a prior purchase this week...but I am sure that you wont mind me sharing them all together! I will keep my post short and sweet this time as I am pressed for time but I thought you may enjoy sharing some pictures of what I was able to find. A picture of my "haul"...lol I plan to age and distress this great little cot a bit more...the grubby ticking matress was an added bonus!...stay tuned for the makeover photos!! The old reckitts boxes are great...I curbed the urge to buy the old Kraft cheese boxes I saw also. The old Rinso box will look great with the other landry memorabilia in my collection....and a sugar bucket!!!!...woohooo...gunna paint and distress this one also (dont freak out though...its only a repro...lol) More...

The "aussie" readers of my blog will be familiar with the Codral commercial...youno "Soldier on with Codral, soldier on, soldier on.......when cold and flu ever gets you down, with Codral  you can soldier on!" Well that's what I've been doing. I copped a dose of the flu last week and thought I was doing okay " soldiering on with my Codrals " until without any warning I awoke to the phone ringing last Saturday morning to discover that I had no voice...nothing!...not even a measly squeek!!!....(oh no...not the singing voice...OMG!!)...lucky it was only my hubby who gratefully (NOT) rang back 4 TIMES  'coz he thought there was something wrong with the phone!!!...and then there was my mum who rang and said "Oh sweetheart...you sound terrible!...hang on...I'm just goimg to put your father on"...."Why's that mum??? I asked ...the response....."so he can hear what you sound like"...which was followed by a fit of the...