Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Happy Monday my fellow Stampin' Peeps!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! A lot has happened since I posted last time! Not sure I can remember all that has gone on! LOL!

I am finished with all the January classes! Whoo Whoo!! Can I get a Whoo Whoo!

Stamp Clubs

Thursday January 15 6 pm-The very lovely duo of Miss Jan and Miss Andrea are our hostesses. ($15 or $15 towards SU product)

Monday January 19 6 pm-The talented and wonderful Miss Beth A. is our hostess. ($15 or $15 towards SU product)

Lunch and Layout

Saturday January 17 11am-8-8x8 pages $30 including lunch!!!

 

 

1st Box Class

Thursday January 29 6 pm-$20 for all five (or six)! That includes all supplies except adhesive.

If I find one more "Bird" box that I think is soooo cute we will make one more! I don't like uneven numbers and right now we have five boxes! LOL!! My OCD is really kicking in!!

Will have February classes up sometime late next week. I am waiting for the two new Valentine stamps sets I ordered to come in!

Now I am going to jump in the "Project Life" arena...I am so nervous and unsure of myself that it reminds me when I first started Paper Crafting! UGH!!! Hopefully I will have good pictures to post soon!

Again Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! I love all of you and can't wait to see you this month!!

Blessings,
R
Robyn Barber
Mimis@mimiandpops.com

Nothing to do with Paper!!

How do I begin to thank EVERYONE who prayed, cleaned, fed, brought groceries, hung out, toted me back and forth, and made sure Jim and I were well taken care of? I have no words other than Thank You so...THANK YOU! 

I decided to write on my blog because so many "God" moments happened this past week because of your prayers.

When Jim arrived at the ER on Tuesday he was a "potato chip" as my friend Lynn says. He was so dehydrated that he was very, very close to being schepis throughout his body. His BP was 41/30, color white however he was talking (which he should not have been) and a little joking.

The NP and nurses kept saying "why do you look so good for being so sick?". He also had septic pneumonia in his left lung so the race to keep it in his lung and not spread throughout the rest of his body began. After 4 hours in the ER trauma unit he was moved to ICU around 10:00pm. I stayed the first night which was rough for both of us...not much sleeping but a lot of praying from me. 

He kept spiking a high fever all night long which meant the infection was winning at that point. His BP had come up to 71/40 better but far from where it should be. He had to lay flat on his back, which with bulging disc's does not feel so hot and could not get out of bed. At that time those were our two major things to work on besides getting him hydrated again.

Unbeknownst to me some wonderful friends behind my back made a "tote" Robyn back and forth team and I was told I was not allowed to stay the night and I would be going home for afternoon naps! They would pick me up feed me and take me home for some snoozing. The first night I went home it was so quite and lonely because Furry Emmie had gone to a sleep over with her cousins Titus and Marlin!

Day 2: When I returned in the am he was better and they were letting him sit up a little but still in bed...no walking or chair sitting...but he was on a high because our Pastor Dave had been there and Jim got to witness to one of his nurses (which is his favorite thing to do!). As the day progressed his BP keep going up but still under the 100's/70's where they wanted it. He was beginning to cough up yucky stuff and things were going in the right direction.

Day 3: His BP was 96/52!!! And they had identified the type of pneumonia he had in his lung so they started him on a strong specific antibiotic that would attack that particular bacteria. However he started having constant chest pains and some SOA so they decided to check his heart. His heart enzyme came back elevated so the heart testing began. As they took him out of his room for the first test I heard him as his favorite question..."What do you believe". When he came back he again was so excited to be able to witness to the transport boys as he called them!

Day 4: He was sitting up in a chair when I got there!!! He was looking so much better and his BP was 110/60!!!! And again he had witnessed to his nurse for the day and they had had a 45 minute conversation and the nurse was going to stay late to talk to him, which he did! He had an echocardiogram that day and we were told there had been some change from the last one he had about 4 years ago so they wanted to do a stress test on him which would be the following am. They moved him out of ICU into PCU that evening. I believe this was the day that Pastor Jim Viehl came by and prayed for more hair, Jim that prayer is still to be answered!

Day 5: He went early for his stress test and was already done with that by the time I got there. He was back to his feisty self and so ready to get out! The cardio Dr. came in later and told him there was some minor damage to the "good" side of his heart and to follow up in a month! We were praising Him!!! But...no go home...his WBC was still elevated higher than his Dr. liked so he had to stay at least one more night :(  HUGE PRAISE that night...both his children showed up with a balloon, cookie cake, milk, cups, plates and forks! Most of you know that this has been a struggle for the past few years and has left a whole in Jim's heart. We had an AWESOME visit and even Arielle and I had a great talk...this is something we have been praying for for a long time. I believe because of my handsome hubby's obedience to God by witnessing anytime he can that we were blessed by this HUGE PRAISE! We both fell asleep on a high that night.  

Day 6: In order to go home he had to have a WBC lower than 12 (when he was admitted it was 30) well...he did not make it to 12...he made it to 6!!! He is such a show off!!! He called me bright and early and said he was packed and ready to go! Our friends Charles and Lynn came and got me and then we picked him up! I don't know who was happier for him to be home...Furry Emmie or Jim!!! 

Day 7: Slept in his own bed and woke up at 6am with so much energy but does notice he needs to do things in spurts not all at once. He is on two different antibiotics for the next month and then a repeat chest x-ray and he is to drink lots of water!!!

God has shown me how when my worry gets the best of me and so close to losing my husband He will always be glorified. And he used my very sick handsome hubby to do it! Sounds funny to say it but we were so blessed during this time...Jim handed out a lot of his business cards and had a lot of good conversations about God and when you are talking to scientist minds sometimes that can be difficult which does not scare Jim...I sit and listen in awe.

The only thing left for me to do is try to get him to slow down...I may have to have his sister Jenny come over and do that!

Again, Thank You for all the prayers and help that has been given too us this past week. We are both so thankful and blessed by everyone! We love the community of our church and our friends and family...We love all of you and can't wait to get back to church!!!

Blessings,
The Barber's
Jim "Batman" and Robyn

October Christmas Tag Class!

Good Afternoon my fellow Stampin' Peeps!

I have been working on the Christmas Tag class that I will be holding in October for the past few days...I loved it! I had a hard time stopping!

Here are the pictures...I will post again closer to the class;

You will make two boxes with eight tags in each box and two "bottle tags"!

Box #1

Box #2

The cost for this class will be $20.

I have really enjoyed working on tags...however now I must move on :(. My next favorite thing to work on is box cards which I am doing next! Yay!

I hope you all have a WONDERFUL weekend and I will catch you one here sometime next week!

Blessings,
Robyn Barber
www.paperscissorsglass.com
robyn.barber59@gmail.com

September and October Lunch and Layouts DONE!!

Lunch and Layouts are finally done for September and October! Next will be the Tag class in October then onto November and getting ready for a Vendor Fair.

Here are the pictures for what we will be doing at the Lunch and Layouts:

Saturday September 20 11am-Models this month are my sweet g'daughters...I know shocking, right?

Saturday October 18 11am-I changed models this month! This is of a trip that we took to the Dallas Arboretum with our Daughter, Stephanie, and Son in Law, Chris back in 2012.

Hopefully I will have the Tag class up tomorrow or the next day! We are expecting rain here in Southern Indiana and my body is telling me it is true...my hands and eyes are working today and that is a praise and answered prayer...now just need to get my legs to behave! LOL!

Praising Him is EVERYTHING!!!

Have a great rest of the week!

Blessings,
Robyn Barber
paperscissorsglass.com
robyn.barber59@gmail.com

October is Started!

Happy Saturday to all my Stampin' Peeps!

Sorry once again for the time in between post...life sometimes gets in the way and we have to climb up those bumps all the while hanging onto Jesus!

We have some of the best friends that God has put into our path and they bless us daily...and my Stampin' Peeps are some of those friends!

Jim has a part time job now driving a Special Needs bus for our school district and he LOVES it! The kids love him and he always has some great encouraging stories about the kids! He works a split shift 5-6 hours daily so it has been an adjustment on our home end...I am just thrilled to see him happy!!

I have been busy with class designs and special orders. I have wedding Thank You cards I am working on now, Wedding invitations to design and my wonderful SLAW asked me to do something for her classroom that I am so excited about! Along with making Halloween goodies for Bella, Falyn and Emery some of those I have to mail so I need to get busy!

Today I finished October Stamp Club cards and tomorrow will be doing Lunch and Layout for this month and next (hopefully).

Here is what we will be doing in October SC: (2 Fall; 2 Christmas)

Here is a challenge for my Stamp Club Peeps. I used one stamp set on all four cards and one on three of the cards. The first one who can message me which two I used will get bakers twine of their choice!

Our next "class" is Stamp Club. Monday September 15 6pm-Miss Lynn is our hostess; Thursday September 18 6pm-Miss Connie is our hostess. Here are the samples of the cards (4 Fall) 

With all of my eye problems (not being able to see!!) I have relied on Pinterest for some of my cards tweaking them to make them look a little different! I am so thankful for all the talented people out there! 

Well, I better hop off here...we promised Bella we would go to the pool...actually my body is so wanting the therapy pool!

Blessings,

R

Robyn Barber

www.paperscissorsglass.com

robyn.barber59@gmail.com