  I think by now most of us have been enjoying some Spring temperatures! Yey! My legs have been getting a REAL workout these past two weeks! Some of you probably have been having some thunderstorms, some wilder than others, we are getting our first ones maybe this week. So happy that the Winter blues is gone and I for one am glad I get to see and enjoy some sunshine and outdoors time. The girls and I are having a FitBit step challenge for the summer months and the winner with the most steps will get a prize in September. They started a week earlier than I, so I’ve been catching up on my steps, slowly but surely! Yup gotta watch the old lady…. :0-D According to my daughter Cindy.... I should be caught up if not a bit ahead in my steps so far! UPCOMING EVENTS Date: 5/14/19 Time: 11a to 1:30 Event: WOW Women Worship/Music with Sam Place: Quiet Oaks Hospice House 5537 Galaxy Road Town: St. Augusta, MN Back again this month!!! The folks at the Hospice House are looking forward to having the WOW ladies come to sing to the residents and staff! They hope to see and hear us every month!  Date: 5/18/19 (NotesNBling) Time: 9a-5p Event: All In One Event (Crafts/Vendors/Garage-Sale) Place: Benton County Fair Grounds - Sports Arena East 1410 3rd Ave S Town: Sauk Rapids, MN This will be a big event! So you don't want to miss this one! Lots of crafter displays, a variety of vendors will have their businesses represented and Bonnie's Home Decor will be out there too! I'm excited to be part of this event with my designs of handcrafted jewelry called NotesNBling-Inspired Art. 🎵 If you are looking for a unique piece that speaks to you, I hope to help you find the item you will love. 💕 One of my popular designs are Essential Oil Aroma Jewelry made with semi-precious stones in beautiful colors. If sterling silver is your thing, there will be a few pieces to check out at my table as well. Can’t wait to meet you! 🎶 You can visit my page at: www.facebook.com/NotesNBling  Date: 5/21/19 Time: 12:30-2:30 Event: WOW Bible Meet / Music /Lesson Place: Liquid Assets 1091 2nd Street South Town: Sartell, MN Our women’s group will meet one more time before our “summer break” of having weekly meetings. However we decided to still get together occasionally for some fun activities during the summer months. So watch for announcements.  JEWELRY & MUSIC NotesNBling, my jewelry line has been doing really well at a variety of vendor/craft & art shows which is exciting as it helps pay the bills and keeps the music going. I've created some new pieces restored, revived, reworked and re-created other jewelry into cool designs in the last couple weeks which I hope people will love to wear! Also people have been bringing their broken jewelry to me to get fixed so they can wear them again. That's been challenging at times, but also fun. Some pieces I got to re-create into new! Like a brooch became a necklace! Take a look at my news feed on my NotesNBling Facebook page! It will also be under photos in the album "mobile uploads". Musically over the summer there are just a few events I’ll be at, since hubby needs help with his BBQ events and there are quite a few more this year than last year as word has spread about his yummy food. However I’m excited to have written a little chorus to add to “How Deep The Father’s Love”, which eventually will become a song of it’s own once I write some verses. For now the chorus gets put in between the verses of the hymn and already has become a favorite chorus of those who have heard the song. I get lots of requests for this hymn now. That what makes songwriting so fun. I really need to get back to writing…. OTHER NEWS:
Keep checking back on our Facebook pages for daily and weekly updates on our summer activities and where we will be. If you love BBQ then you’ll want to ‘like’ Warren’s Page www.facebook.com/WarrensBBQ. If you love my jewelry, be sure to ‘like’ my NotesNBling page, www.Facebook.com/NotesNBling. And of course if you’ve been following my music, there’s always been my music page: www.facebook.com/SamScalesMusic. Hope to see you at some event this summer! Sam
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 Yey! It's SPRING!! Who all is happy about that? Now we should get "thawed out" and thinking about planting and gardening.... For us I'm hoping this will mean finally getting our yard cleaned up! It needs a heavy duty spring cleaning and hauling off some junk that's been sitting around for two years and just looks plain ugly. Since I'm not going on my Spring Tour this year, this is what I'm hoping to dive into and also beautify the back yard a bit so that we can have some cookouts too. April is going to be a very busy month both music wise and with the jewelry! So that's pretty cool. So, here are the events:  UPCOMING EVENTS: Date: 4/6/19 {NotesNBling) Time: 9a-1p Event: Sartell Winter Market Place: Sartell Community Center 850 19th Street S. (GPS will say St. Cloud) Town: Sartell, MN This will be the last Winter Market indoors for the season before the Summer Farmers Market starts, which will be every Monday I believe from 3-6 pm (not positive on that). The Winter Market will start up again later this year in NOVEMBER, so be looking for us to be set up again for that! We have decided not to participate in the Summer Market because we have way too busy of a schedule in the summer months to commit to the Farmers Market. So come see Warren (get your BBQ sauce) and I (get a jewelry gift for someone or yourself) one more time indoors at the Sartell Community Center from 10 am - 1 pm.  Date: 4/9/19 Time: 12:30-2:30 Event: WOW Bible Meet / Music /Lesson Place: Liquid Assets 1091 2nd Street South Town: Sartell, MN This is our weekly bible meet at Liquid Assets. Come for fellowship/worship and digging into the Word of God.  Date: 4/13/19 (Vendor Tables: NotesNBling, Warren's BBQ & other Crafters) Time: 4-7 pm Event: Empty Bowls (Yearly Fundraiser for Place Of Hope) Place: City Hope Church 413 Franklin Ave. NE Town: Sauk Rapids, MN Date: 4/14/19 Time: 11 am-4 pm Our Music Slot: 1:30p -3:00p Event: Empty Bowls (Yearly Fundraiser for Place Of Hope) Place: City Hope Church 413 Franklin Ave. NE Town: Sauk Rapids, MN This maybe our 8th year participating with the Empty Bowls Event... I can't remember, but it's been a long time! We enjoy the time singing and in the last few years I've also added a table for the Craft/Vendor Sale during the event for NotesNBling jewelry & this year Warren will have his BBQ Sauce table there. So get your sauce! There will be other crafters there too, so come check out their wares! We will be set up for both days and will be playing music on SUNDAY from 1:30-3 pm.  Date: 4/16/19 Time: 11a to 1:30p Event: WOW Women Worship/Music with Sam Place: Quiet Oaks Hospice House 5537 Galaxy Road Town: St. Augusta, MN The WOW women's group is excited to go back to Quiet Oaks Hospice House to be a blessing to the residents, families and staff as we sing a mix of hymns, worship and original songs. We have heard that people are already excited and looking forward to our time there! I think we have gained some "fans" :0-)  Date: 4/19/19 Time: 7 - 9 pm Event: One Way Cafe Place: River Cities Christian Church 869 State Highway 73S Town: Wisconsin Rapids, WI Excited to be back in Wisconsin Rapids, with our friends from the One Way Cafe! Looking forward to a great time of music & fellowship!  Date: 4/20/19 Time: 7-9 pm Place: Upper Room Christian Community 1125 N. 8th Street Town: Sheboygan, WI Concert time at the Upper Room again! Been a while since I've visited there. This is my "home away from home" coffeehouse ministry & favorite place. They watched me grow from a rock singer to today's music! ....and they keep having me come back! :0-)  Date: 4/23 & 4/30/19 Time: 12:30-2:30 Event: WOW Bible Meet / Music /Lesson Place: Liquid Assets 1091 2nd Street South Town: Sartell, MN This is our weekly ladies bible meet / fellowship! Anyone is welcome who would like to join!  IN ENDING: Last month we had such worshipful time at the BURN, the Central MN 24/7 12 hour prayer & worship event. We always love the peace of God wherever this takes place and are grateful for the other musicians and worship leaders who come to offer their time and gift to God. Also my NotesNBling vendor events were really good, I made more connections and got some custom orders as well as selling from my stock. It's always nice to meet new people and get to love on them and see them enjoy their new jewelry pieces. As you can see April will be very busy. I didn't even add an online jewelry event to the events above, which will take place April 21-27. There are a lot of things that I need to get ready for that yet! I've never done an online vendor sale! The event is a fundraiser for the Central Illinois Autism Association. Each vendor donated an item to CIAA for fundraising and we paid a vendor fee which also goes to CIAA. There is also a Silent Auction too and the proceeds from that go to CIAA as well. So basically there are 6 groups where vendors are in. Each group has a variety of vendors and products people can shop/buy from. How people get into the group is that each vendor invites folks. It'll be really fun too, so I'm curious to see how this all will work out. My actual selling time slot will be on Wednesday, April 24 from 2-4 pm. I may be "live" and I will post a video showing my jewelry I'm offering for this sale and will also post the pictures after that in the group. I'm in CIAA Group #2 and I would like to message those of you who are on Facebook if you'd like to join in and then I'll add you to the group. I will not do that without asking first for your permission! I hope you guys can participate! You can also join or request to join by using this button: Well, I think this will be all the update for this month. Make sure you check my Facebook Page for Sam Scales Music and NotesNBling for any other updates, or check back here under "Tour Dates".
Since lately more Vending/Selling opportunities have come along and NotesNBling does not have it's own website, I've been including the Craft/Vendor Shows under the 'Tour Dates' too. Now, go out there and enjoy some Spring weather and hopefully I'll see you guys at one of the music events, or at a Craft/Vendor show this month! Blessings to all, Sam  Although this is March.....winter's not letting go! Y'aaaaallll..........how much more snow will we get? Setting records in MN, that's how we do it! LOL. Just a very quick update this month, as pretty much all what was happening in February was snow, snow and more snow. Hubby and I were busy keeping our business and private home owner accounts happy in removing all the excess white stuff so cars could be parked and they could access all delivery or garage doors. It's been many 18 hour days for the hubs. As I am typing.........it is snowing again out there. Another possible 4-6" inches they say. Yet, Spring is on it's way....soon :D  UPCOMING EVENTS: Date: Saturday, March 2, 2019 Time: 9 am - 1 pm Event: Winter Market at Cirque Du Sartell Event Place: Sartell Community Center 850 19th Street S. (GPS will say St. Cloud) Town: Sartell, MN The little Sartell Farmers Winter Market will be part of the business Expo hosted by the Sartell Chamber & Hospitality and Visitors Service this month. We have been part of the Winter Market since November last year. The Market will still go until the first weekend in April. Then the regular Farmers Market starts for the summer. Since we will be busy in the summer we won't be part of it most likely, but will return for the Winter Market again in November this year. So for this Saturday we won't be in our usual room, but probably across the hall and amidst all the other vendors set up for this event. It should be fun, lots of activities, so come one out and come see us. Warren will be there with his BBQ sauce as well, so if you need to stock up, that's the time to grab some!  Date: March 5, 2019 Time: 10:30 (meet at Liquid Assets) - 2:30 Event: WOW Women Worship/Music Place: Quiet Oaks Hospice House 5537 Galaxy Road Town: St. Augusta, MN Music time!!! This Tuesday the WOW Women Group will be enjoying a group singing with Sam at Quiet Oaks Hospice House, to bring the peace and joy of music to staff and residents alike. WOW ladies: we will meet at Liquid Assets at 10:30 to carpool over to Quiet Oaks.  Date: 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 (watch for weather cancellations) Time: 12:30-2:30 Event: WOW Bible Meet Place: Liquid Assets 1091 2nd Street South Town: Sartell, MN A group of us ladies (all from different churches) meet every Tuesday at Liquid Assets Coffeehouse in Sartell. The synonym for WOW means Women Of The Word. We are there at the same time from 12:30 until 2:30. Occasionally we schedule an activity such as singing at Quiet Oaks Hospice house (see January 22nd), or we may plan some other community outreach/service on a Tuesday. We start with my guitar and singing or we may end that way. Currently I'm teaching on "Dividing Of Soul & Spirit", which has been such a good and interesting study for me....and it has been refreshing for all of us. We will be on that subject for a little while, it's so good. You are welcome to join us. We have fun, we sing, we learn, we study, we look up scriptures to stay grounded and we grow as we love the Lord and He loves on us.  Date: Saturday, March 23, 2019 Time: 1-3 pm (event is from 9a-9p) Event: 12 Hour BURN Place: Jubilee Worship Center 3125 County Road 74 Town: St. Cloud, MN Warren and I will be one of the worship teams for this prayer/praise & worship time. Our timeslot is from 1-3, but the event begins at 9 am and ends at 9 pm. Anyone is welcome to come and worship with us.  Date: Saturday, March 30, 2019 Time: 10 am-2 pm Event: Spring Craft/Vendor Show & Ham Bingo Place: St. Augusta American Legion 1894 247th Street Town: St. Augusta, MN This will be the first of the Crafts Fairs I'll be attending with my NotesNBling Jewelry for the year, so I'm excited to start that season. Next month there will be some MUSIC DATES in Wisconsin! Yey! Finally able to travel again with hopefully no snowy or treacherous roads we have been having the last couple of months! IN ENDING:
At the last event listed up above, you saw a picture of NotesNBling table runners. So those have my NEW logo on them and I just picked them up at FedEx before all the snow started flying today. Very thrilled I got them in! My friend Brian Berry from Anvil Custom Graphics in Fayetteville, AR designed the logo and made the covers for me - and they arrived just in time for the big business event at the Community Center in Sartell this Saturday. I've also been working on getting a few jewelry items ready for this Saturday, so I've been busy creating some cool stone diffuser bracelets with all the new pretty beads I bought a while back.... Hopefully I'll still have time to make a few earrings to go with those new bracelet colors! They are just gorgeous! You have to come check it out! We are thrilled to have picked up a couple music events for this month too besides the vendor shows and they are close in town, so no long distance traveling in possibly bad weather. Also a reminder.... I have a YouTube Channel, but it has a long weird link and I need 100 subscribers to where I can finally get the link that says: youtube.com/SamScalesMusic.... However I'm still 44 subscribers away from that goal. If you have not yet subscribed....would you do so? It would really help me out in promoting the channel more eventually and start creating a bit more content there too. To get to the channel just click on the YouTube icon (next to the Facebook and other icons) above the email subscription box on my website to get you there. Thanks so much. Now let's hope Spring will arrive soon, in the meanwhile, keep strengthening that core and those arm muscles while you do your snowshovel workout routine :D :D :D Blessings to all, Sam  Has winter ever hit in Minnesota! This is the most snow and super cold we have experienced yet since we moved here! Wow! Who is ready for Spring? The roads have been so bad that we had to cancel our weekly WOW ladies meet at Liquid Assets. So if you would like to attend but haven't made it to one yet, please message me via my Facebook Page or email me. For your convenience you can use the links below: PERSONALLY: So since it's been snowing like winter got mad or something, hubby has been plowing for his accounts like crazy. There's been so much! School has been cancelled a few times already, so on those days he could really focus on getting it done and I've been able to come along on his plowing routes. It's really interesting how he does it. Here's a little video I took I get to spend time with the hubs and at the church we get to be physically active and snowblow/shovel the walkways, entryways and stairs. As long as the wind isn't blowing too bad, I've actually been enjoying this. I know right? Hard to believe, because I'm such a summer/flip-flops person, haha. However.....there are NO mosquitos right now! :D Below a few wintery pictures I've taken on our plowing outings.....  UPCOMING EVENTS: During the winter months, and especially this winter with the harsh temperatures and the amounts of snow we have been getting, I have to avoid travel this time of year, especially long distances. So my schedule has been very light. Keep track with me via the "TRACK" button up top on my website or check in on my Facebook Page. Date: 2/12, 2/19, 2/26 (watch for weather cancellations) Time: 12:30-2:30 Event: WOW Bible Meet Place: Liquid Assets 1091 2nd Street South Town: Sartell, MN A group of us ladies (all from different churches) meet every Tuesday at Liquid Assets Coffeehouse in Sartell. The synonym for WOW means Women Of The Word. We are there at the same time from 12:30 until 2:30. Occasionally we schedule an activity such as singing at Quiet Oaks Hospice house (see January 22nd), or we may plan some other community outreach/service on a Tuesday. We start with my guitar and singing or we may end that way. Currently I'm teaching on "Dividing Of Soul & Spirit", which has been such a good and interesting study for me....and it has been refreshing for all of us. We will be on that subject for a little while, it's so good. You are welcome to join us. We have fun, we sing, we learn, we study, we look up scriptures to stay grounded and we grow as we love the Lord and He loves on us.  Date: 3/2/19 {NotesNBling) Time: 9a-1p Event: Sartell Winter Market/Sartell Business Expo Place: Sartell Community Center 850 19th Street S. (GPS will say St. Cloud) Town: Sartell, MN This little Winter Market has been such a fun time for me and we only have two more Winter Markets left - March and April) It is always on the first Saturday each month and is indoors in Sartell's Community Center. This time it will be a bigger event, because our little market will be part of a Community Business Expo held the same day. So we won't be in the small room where we usually are, but among all the other vendors. Warren is also going to be there with his BBQ sauce jars in three flavors: mild, famous and throatwarmer. So come out and see us! IN ENDING:
This past Sunday our pastor shared a great illustration with us, which explains Hebrews 12:1 perfectly! *In Jules Verne's novel 'The Mysterious Island', he tells of five men who escape a Civil War prison camp by hijacking a hot-air balloon. As they rise into the air, they realize the wind is carrying them over the ocean. Watching their homeland disappear on the horizon, they wonder how much longer the balloon can stay aloft. As the hours pass and the surface of the ocean draws closer, the men decide they must cast overboard some of the weight, for they had no way to heat the air in the balloon. Shoes, overcoats and weapons are reluctantly discarded, and the uncomfortable aviators feel their balloon rise. But only temporarily. Soon they find themselves dangerously close to the waves again, so they toss their food. Better to be high and hungry than drown on a full belly! Unfortunately, this too, is only a temporary solution, and the craft again threatens to lower the men into the sea. One man has an idea: they can tie the ropes that hold the passenger car and sit on those ropes. Then they can cut away the basket beneath them. As they sever the very thing they had been standing on it drops into the ocean and the balloon rises. Not a minute too soon, they spot land. Eager to stand on terra firma again, the five jump into the water and swim to the island. They live, spared because they were able to discern the difference between what REALLY was NEEDED and what was not. The "necessities" they once thought they couldn't live without were the very weights that almost cost them their lives. The writer to the Hebrews says, "Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles" (Heb. 12:1 NIV) - writer: Ed Haynes, Edwardsville, IL. Doesn't that make you think? What might be hindering us from achieving our dreams? What might be hindering us from loving Jesus freely? What might be the burden and weight we hold on to because we blew it too many times or think it's necessary to our life, only to continue being discouraged, disillusioned and unhappy when the Bible says in Psalm 16:11 - You will make known to be the path of life; In Your presence there is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever. (NASB) Do we love Jesus above all else? Do we want to be in His presence? Is He in Whom we find joy despite of the circumstances? Do we seek Him? It's in discerning what truly is needed (which is Christ) and what is not (which is a lot of stuff that takes our energy, thoughts, worries and fears). Are we going to truly live, or will the very weights we carry cost us the abundant life? Stay focused my friends....... Sam  Hello and Happy New Year to all you special people! I know.....it's already past the middle of the month and I'm just now getting around to it. But hey, it's the thought that counts! You all hopefully had a wonderful Christmas Season and a good start to the New Year, and if it wasn't quite what you had hoped for or expected.... things can get better but we must remain in hope! Never give up hope and always seek the best and follow that which is good, of good report, praiseworthy, pure, lovely, honorable, true and right. (That's found in Philippians 4:8) PERSONALLY: We had a good Christmas, but different this year. We got to spend Christmas Eve with friends at their house here locally and that was such a GREAT time. Spending time with people is so important! I always wish that everyone would have someone to spend time with on the holidays, but I know so many times it's not possible and my heart goes out to those who feel lonely. It was hard for me on Christmas Day, because hubby and I had planned on going to my daughter's in Chicago together, however with snow in the forecast for the day after Christmas, Warren had to stay behind to take care of his snowplowing accounts. Since my daughter from South Texas was already in Chicago and I don't get to see her all too often, I headed out by myself on Christmas Day. Sad to leave hubby, but excited to hang with my two characters and apples that didn't fall far from the tree :D Tell ya what, driving that day was the BEST driving down I-94 I've EVER done! Wow! Hardly any traffic, no trucks (except for two) and making it from Monticello all the way through the Cities in one hour (yes, driving the speed limit)....that was amazing. I've never done that! Those of you who live around here know exactly what I'm talking about when it comes to Minneapolis/St. Paul traffic!!! I had a wonderful time with my daughters and grandkids, missed all the snow around here and enjoyed decent temperatures and a lot of fun. On the way home after 5 days, I stopped by my favorite bead store and stocked up on supplies for more jewelry creations for NotesNBling. Now....it's January....and COLD. -6 degrees this morning as I headed out to an event. Yikes! Y'all, but Spring is only 60 more days away!!!  UPCOMING EVENTS: Date: 1/19/19 (NotesNBling) Time: 9a-1p Event: Live Your Passion Rally Place: Jitters Java Cafe 403 Main Street South Town: Sauk Centre, MN  Date: 1/22/19 Time: 11a to 1-2p Event: WOW Women Worship/Music Place: Quiet Oaks Hospice House 5537 Galaxy Road Town: St. Augusta, MN This particular Tuesday is going to be our "service to others" day, so we will be leaving from Liquid Assets to go sing at Quiet Oaks for the residents and staff. They loved us so much last time when we came during Christmas they asked if we could come back and maybe do this every month...  Date: 1/29/1 Time: 12:30-2:30 Event: WOW Bible Meet Place: Liquid Assets 1091 2nd Street South Town: Sartell, MN A group of us ladies (all from different churches) meet every Tuesday at Liquid Assets Coffeehouse in Sartell. The synonym for WOW means Women Of The Word. We are there at the same time from 12:30 until 2:30. Occasionally we schedule an activity such as singing at Quiet Oaks Hospice house (see January 22nd), or we may plan some other community outreach/service on a Tuesday. We start with my guitar and singing or we may end that way. Currently I'm teaching on "Dividing Of Soul & Spirit", which has been such a good study for me.... it has been refreshing for all of us. We will be on that subject for a little while, it's so good. You are welcome to join us. We have fun, we sing, we learn, we study, we look up scriptures to stay grounded and we grow as we love the Lord and He loves on us.  Date: 2/2/19 {NotesNBling) Time: 10a-1p Event: Sartell Winter Market Place: Sartell Community Center 850 19th Street S. (GPS will say St. Cloud) Town: Sartell, MN This little Winter Market has been such a fun time for me. It was super busy before the holidays and I hope people come back these next few more months (February, March and April) for this market which is on the first Saturday each month and is indoors in Sartell's Community Center. The vendors currently there are fresh meat (grassfed), honey, popcorn, homemade essential oils and soaps, crafts and myself with the jewelry. New and different vendors pop up monthly as well besides the dedicated ones. When basketball is over, Warren will be back with his BBQ sauce, most likely March and April. IN ENDING:
The girls and I have decided to keep each other accountable for some fitness and weight loss goals. Soooo..... I got a Fitbit for Christmas....!!! Oh boy....the RACE IS ON!! So with Fitbit, you can do these weekly or weekend challenges with your friends where you have to get the most steps in to win. So far the girls always get the upper hand. Then Warren decided he wasn't going to be left out and found himself a Fitbit at a great discount and so now he is a challenger to contend with for all of us, especially on the weekends!! Last week however, their steps were toast when I took over and won the week with the most steps. That was thanks to decent weather!! Can't let these youngsters show me up who are half my age! Right?!! :D Now at -6 degrees and the high in the single digits, I think I'll let them win next week until the weather gets "warmer"....then watch out!!! What are your January fitness/health goals? Let's buckle up and get to working on with keeping up with that and feeling better and getting stronger! Music/jewelry schedule will have to be a little light these next few weeks since it's "tax season" and paperwork time.... Prayers for my sanity appreciated! Need to get back to just creativity SOON! Wishing everyone a successful and blessed 2019! Sam |
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