 Valentines Day is almost upon us and.....I'm just now getting around to my Music Notes! 😏 Guess I missed January, didn't I? No worries though, you didn't miss too much. Mostly January and February months are dedicated to catch up on paperwork, mostly the dreaded tax prep. I'm almost seeing the end of the tunnel and will be so glad to be done with that and shift my full attention back to my creative side. Well, let's dive right in.....  UPCOMING EVENTS: Date: Tuesday, February 11 Time: 10:30-1:00 Event: WOW Ladies Outreach Day - Singing Location: Quiet Oaks Hospice House 5537 Galaxy Road Town: St. Cloud, MN Date: Sunday, February 16 Time: 6:30 pm Event: Worship Band - Evening Service Location: Harvest Fellowship Church 400 2nd Ave. N Town: Sauk Rapids, MN Warren and I will be part of the worship band for the 2nd evening service. Excited about our Sunday night services which started last weekend for the first time. Date: Tuesdays, February 18 & 25 Time: 12:30 Event: WOW Ladies Meet (Women Of The Word) Location: TBA (usually someone's home, contact me) Town: Sauk Rapids, MN Our ladies group meets weekly (unless weather or other unforeseen circumstances). Until Liquid Assets reopens in Sartell, we have been meeting at each others homes or other places. So contact me if you'd like to attend. Date: Saturday, March 7 Time: 9-1 Event: Sartell Winter Market / Sartell Community Showcase Location: Sartell Community Center 850 19th Street S. (off Pinecone, behind Apartment Buildings) Town: Sartell, MN The Sartell Community Center will be hosting a Business Expo that day also, with local businesses, vendors and small business owners having their items for sale/display. So you don't want to miss that event! Our Farmers Market will be part of this event. Most likely we will be set up in the hallway again. Warren and I will be set up at the end. You can't miss us :)  PERSONAL NEWS: Here is a FISHING STORY: So, end of January there's a very well known Fishing Tournament up in Brainerd. It's held at Gull Lake organized by the Brainerd Jaycees. In the past Warren had gone up to sell his delicious BBQ at a couple of these events, with one event ending with the loss of his tent due to high winds one year. Although he was still able to finish serving everyone, it was mighty cold and even starting to sleet. So you can imagine the second time he decided to go up there to sell BBQ at that event (asking me to come along to help), my enthusiasm level wasn't exactly peaking on "high" on the excitement meter. However through someone the use of an ice house was donated to him during the event, so I had a warm place to stay and it wasn't too bad. In front of the ice house he pitched his cooking tent and people came to buy food, enjoying his BBQ. This year after some consideration of possibly selling BBQ again at the Brainerd Fishing Tournament, Warren decided that this time he would just enjoy a time of fishing. He's never really got to seriously ice fish and so he wanted to give that a try. He bought himself some equipment and he was set. A Kayaking Fishing Friend came along and so the two of them went up there together, picked their holes (mind you there are over 10,000 holes in that ice) and set out their rods and lures. Within the first 20 minutes of the event Warren's lil ice fishing rod took a big nod towards the ice and boy....did he catch a big one!! 🎣 It took the both of them to get that fish through the 10" hole! The fish was an eelpout (something I've never heard of) and weighted 8.29 lbs! It was the biggest fish caught that day, with the next being a Walleye weighing in at 3.5 lbs. He was pretty much shaking on the way to the weigh in with that fish! 🐠 So needless to say, that fish won first prize!!! The first prize was a brand new 2020 Pickup Truck. He had the choice of two and choose the white GMC Sierra. If you've seen Warren's old truck he had been driving (and snow plowing with) for years.... we call it the old faithful rust bucket... then you can understand Warren's excitement. He has had to hold the drivers door shut with bungees to keep it closed for a few months until he could find a used replacement door. The truck bed is rusted out as are the sides and the passenger door. We stuck a lot of money into it to keep it on the road. It would have been a few years to save up to buy a fairly decent one and most likely never a brand new one! You always see it happening to others, so it's quite a (good) shock when it actually happens to you. Never ice fished, pulls out the biggest fish 🎣 and wins a truck!.... WOW! 😳 We have since learned that eelpouts usually are never in shallow water. So we believe it was all God's blessing and provision to send that fish to find Warren's lure attractive enough to give it a bite! RECAP: On Sunday, January 12 we were invited to come up to Rice Lake, WI for a church anniversary. Our Pastor Friends Gene & Pat Sedola and the Congregation of Calvary Fellowship were celebrating their one year Anniversary. Pastor Gene invited us to bring music and join in their celebration. It was such an anointed and fun time! The coolest thing was, that Pastor Gene's message that evening was in the same chapter and just a couple verses before Joshua 3:14, which was a message our Home church pastor preached on that morning! How cool is that?! Both messages contained a theme: Faith. Stepping out in Faith. Trusting God. Our drive up there was uneventful, however as we walked out of church to load up our equipment we found our vehicle covered with a light layer of snow. ❄️ It took a lot of prayer and intense driving back home as a snow front was blowing in and roads begun to get covered. Most of our journey we followed two different snowplow trucks, which made the roads a bit better, but our vision was greatly impaired with all the snow clouds drifting our way from the plow in front of us. Thankfully we had prayer cover over us and we made it home safely without any incidents.... NOTESnBLING: A little update about the jewelry.... Although January and February are dedicated to paperwork as I mentioned up top, I still have customers and a few small events to prepare for. Plus, when I find really cool beads online and get them in the mail, I want to do something with them. So down below are a few of my latest items for sale. The next Jewelry Selling event is again the Sartell Winter Market, which is the first Saturday of the month. This time will be very cool because Sartell will also have their Business Expo and we get to be part of that! Below a few pictures of some of my designs. If you see something you like, contact me: NotesNBling@gmail.com. My Facebook page is: www.facebook.com/NotesNBling. IN ENDING:
As life for us has had it's ups and downs, just as many of you are experiencing life, we are grateful for the "up" times to refresh and refocus and we are thankful to God for seeing us through the "down" times and grateful for His grace, His guidance, His presence and comfort. Sometimes it seems like He tarries, sometimes it seems like He doesn't hear or see and even if it seems He is distant, the truth is that He is always near as He never forsakes us. Sometimes I know for myself I can be hard of hearing, He may be speaking to me, but my ears are dull when my focus is on "life". Oh how vital it is that we draw close to the One who cares for us and loves us. Never give up hope, the answer may just be around the corner....unexpected and full of surprise. God always does more than what we deserve, not necessarily because of ourselves, but because of His great Name and the Name of his Son, Jesus Christ. Y'all have a great rest of February and may your eyes and heart be poised to hear from Him in all of what is called living this life. Live it to the fullest. Love, Sam
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 This is SO incredibly freeing to be able to TYPE again without having to copy/paste to put words together or have to dictate something using the phone to type here what I want to share. Anyhow, I have a new laptop!!!.....YEEEEYYY!!! I decided to go with a different brand and new operating system, so I have LOTS to learn, but some features I totally love already. The shopping season's craft & art shows are coming slowly to an end. I only have two more shows left for this season and a few custom orders to finish. Then I want to take a few days off between Christmas and New Year. It's much needed as both Warren and I have had events every single weekend since October. This year it's been super busy with my business, so in a way I'm glad I didn't have a lot of music engagements. What's thrilling is that it's been a huge blessing because I was able to finally upgrade my laptop which I've been needing to do and wish I could have done so two years ago when my laptop started going downhill. Always glad I can limp things along but the keyboard going out....after three months of copy/paste.... that was a bit much. LOL. PERSONALLY: The snow season has begun and hubby has been doing a lot of plowing during his time off. People are always glad to see him. I'm still not too excited about the winter/snow season. Usually I love snow and I don't mind shoveling, but I tell ya, it's annoying when you have so much to do in the design studio that you just don't really have the time to shovel. However, the exercise is good and if one sits a lot, one must move, right?! Since this is the busy selling season, I've been working a lot of hours making jewelry, creating some new designs and trying to keep stock up to have a lot of variety for people to choose from. However in between there are a few little music opportunities with my WOW Ladies group and the occasional other event.  UPCOMING EVENTS: Date: Saturday, December 14 Time: 10a - 3p Event: Let It Snow Vendor/Craft Show Location: Forest Lake VFW 556 12th Street NW Town: Forest Lake MN Warren will also be there with his homemade BBQ Sauce and his newly created Pallet Christmas Trees which look so absolutely cool and you can use them year around too. They come in different sizes (biggest is 4 ft tall) either plain (where you decorate yourself) or decorated (with hooks for ornaments, tiny Christmas Balls and Micro Lights attached). Of course I will have all my lines of jewelry available for your browsing and shopping enjoyment. Date: Sunday, December 15 Time: 6 pm Event: Variety Show Location: Harvest Fellowship Church 400 2nd Ave N Town: Sauk Rapids, MN Warren and I will be part of a variety of acts and talents from our church. Warren will present a saxophone solo song with backing track and his sound effect pedal. I will be singing my original Christmas song "Peace On Earth". Date: Saturday, December 21 Time: 10a - 1p Event: Sartell Winter Farmers Market Location: Sartell Community Center 850 19th Street S. Town: Sartell, MN This is the last Winter Market before Christmas, so if you need to get sauce for any holiday parties or you need that last minute gift, be sure to stop by our booths! There are also other crafters and artisans there who have honey, meat, breads, lotions, handbags and other crafted items as well. The Sartell Winter Market in the New Year will continue to be only the FIRST SATURDAY of every month, January through April. Then the summer market will begin.... IN ENDING:
Thank you so much to all of you who are our friends, family, neighbors, customers and concert attendees! We are so grateful to all of you for your care for us, your prayers, your enthusiasm over the things we make, the music, or just being friends. It's awesome. We have met so many new folks over this past year and some just have left imprints upon our hearts and we are grateful for new friendships and relationships! God always has a plan and sometimes that plan includes what I call "divine appointments". Thank you again so much for your support! We love you all and we wish you a very Blessed Christ Centered Season and for the New Year God's grace, His wisdom, provision and healing to all. Until Next Year, Yours always..... Sam & Warren  Soooo since my laptop’s keyboard is still messed up and now my phone giving me issues with voice typing...(seeeriouuusslyyyy) ...this is going to be super short and sweet. The patience needed for the one finger QWERTY type system on the phone is only going to last so long, haha. I have not mastered the two thumb thingy.... Anyhow. Just quickly letting you know about the upcoming events. Music will be Nov. 9 at Hometown Harvest Market in Hudson, WI for their fundraiser craft and vendor show. Last year was such a blessed time. Prayers appreciated for my voice as I had a cold and laringitis kinda settled in. So no practice happened this week. Ugh! Only one more week and I’ll be singing... hopefully and not ...squeaking!!! Rest of events are shows for NotesNBling and Warren with his sauce too. I would have had one more music event in December but they called me just a couple days ago and sadly I was already committed to a craft show. UPCOMING EVENTS: Tomorrow hubby and I will be at the Winter Farmers Market inside the Sartell Community Building from 10-1. If you get this before then. Come see us! Tell your friends! This time, due to the laptop/phone issues there's just is one jpg which has a everything listed for our events in the months of November and December! See below:  Hope to see you at one of these places. Remember when you shop from an artist, a crafter, small business you get unique items, often handcrafted and certainly made with great care and joy!
With my items in particular, some are truly unique, some one of a kind, to where that piece is yours to make a statement with. Enjoy the shopping season, no stressing allowed! Soon it'll be snowing....that should get us in the mood! Haha. Have a Blessed Thanksgiving... Sam   Since my September update a few days ago, I have discovered a few more letters and some numbers that are not working on my keyboard. Crazy!
It is really amazing how often we use the letter “A”, “U” and “Y”... My laptop is still not fixed (I’ll get around to it eventually)...So here I am again dictating my October Music Notes via phone in an email to myself to copy and paste it into my website. So I will make it short and sweet. Just want to share with you the upcoming events again for October. UPCOMING EVENTS: Date: October 11 & 12 Times: Friday 4-7, Saturday 10-3 Event: NotesNBling Open House Place: Sam’s house by invitation only. Town: Sauk Rapids MN This is my yearly Open House. To attend, please email me (sam@samscales.com) if you’d like to come for either day. There will be drawings for % off, drawing for a piece of jewelry if you spend over $50 and some stuff for sale and other lil giveaways. I'll have the coffee or tea on and some snacks. Maybe even a make-n-take? RSVP please so I can make kits..... What do you think? Date: October 19 Time: 10-2 Event: Craft & Vendor Show Place: St. Cloud Eagles Club 730 41st Ave N. Town: St. Augusta MN Date: October 26 Time: 10-2 Event: Fall Craft Show Place: St. Augusta American Legion 1894 247th Street Town: St. Augusta MN I participate in their spring and fall shows so I'm excited to be set up there again for this event! LOOKING AHEAD: The latest events have been a blast and I made new vendor friends and met a lot of sweet folks. The sales have been a blessing and we are grateful for the amazing response to my brand. More new designs to come! Musically I am preparing for live music in Hudson Wisconsin for the Hometown Harvest Market in November. This time I may add a few Christmas songs into my set. It will be good to get a head-start on refreshing my Christmas repertoire to be ready for the season. Periodically check into my Facebook pages for last minute updates: www.facebook.com/NotesNBling www.facebook.com/SamScalesMusic IN ENDING: It has gotten quite chilly the last few days! Fall is here to stay… Pretty soon we will have to get our boots out. I’m not quite sure if I’m ready… I think my geraniums outside will be ok till next Thursday... then the temps will dip into the 30's overnight and it till be time to bring in the plants. For Friday it is calling for snow.....not the grandest forecast for my open house. Yikes! However Saturday is sunshine!!! But you guys are tough Minnesotans, right? So I may see some of you on Friday afternoon :) Thank you all for your support and your prayers for the music as well as the jewelry! You don’t know how much that is appreciated. Until the next update...blessings your way! Sam   I am having to be very creative with posting my September music notes. After I came home from a short trip (hunting for jewelry treasures), when I got on my laptop to do some work I noticed that when I push certain letters they just don’t show up. Which means certain keys on my keyboard are not working. Like the letter “A“ or the letter “Y“, “U” or the numbers up top, or “shift” or “control” or the “caps lock”. It’s crazy.
It worked before I left… So weird. Since I had some work to do upon my return, I had to find creative ways to grab the missing letters in other documents and copy and paste them into the words that I wanted to type. So you can imagine this is a very long and tedious process. So this newsletter is coming to you with me dictating it to my email via my trusty phone and then for me to copy and paste it into my website newsletter. I’m really glad I have a “smart phone“. :0-) :0-) :0-) Therefore this is going to be very short. I just wanted to let you know what the upcoming events are. UPCOMING EVENTS: Date: Saturday, September 28. Time: 9-3 Event: Craft & Vendor Fair Place: Moose Lodge Waite Park 1300 3rd Street Town: Waite Park MN I will be there set up with my jewelry. Date: October 11 & 12 Times: Friday 4-7, Saturday 10-3 Event: NotesNBling Open House Place: Sam’s house by invitation only. Town: Sauk Rapids MN This is my yearly Open House. To attend, please email me (sam@samscales.com) if you’d like to come for either day. I’ll have snacks, drawings for % off, drawing for a piece of jewelry if you spend over $100 and some stuff for sale and other lil giveaways. Maybe even a make-n-take? What do you think? Date: October 19 Time: 10-2 Event: Craft & Vendor Show Place: St. Cloud Eagles Club 730 41st Ave N. Town: St. Augusta MN Date: October 26 Time: 10-2 Event: Fall Craft Show Place: St. Augusta American Legion 1894 247th Street Town: St. Augusta MN I do their spring and fall show so I'll be set up there again that Saturday! This should cover all the events for October. At this point I know it is all about the jewelry. Let's stay tuned to my website and definitely my Facebook page..... A music opportunity may just come up. In the meanwhile I hope I can get my laptop fixed. Guess it will be YouTube and hope for the best. At this point I cannot afford a new laptop. Prayers are appreciated. I will really need a lot of sales, to get new one haha!! So I’m keeping this short as I know I need to try to transfer this over to the website. When you get this in the mail that means it worked! Hopefully a better newsletter next month. Make sure you keep up with both of my pages on Facebook. www.facebook.com/NotesNBling www.facebook.com/SamScalesMusic. Love y’all, Sam |
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