 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
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 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   Happy Summer to you all! So grateful for the warm temps which overall have been so pleasant in MN with the exception of a few hot and humid days (like during the Art Fair at Munsinger Gardens), it's been a great summer so far. We've also had hail last weekend and some really big ones, golf ball size and bigger in some places. Thankfully we didn't have any damage. We had a great time with my daughter and family as my granddaughter Hannah was playing softball tournaments. So it's been fun watching her play as we don't get to see her often with them living so far away. This was her last softball tournament as she will be going on to college after the summer vacation ends. So proud of her and excited for her new adventure in life! Hopefully you all can enjoy your summer days, vacation, sport activities, fishing or just hanging out in the back yard, or even getting some yard chores done (which we still need to do by the way)! Lots of activities are planned for August....so on to the upcoming events!  UPCOMING EVENTS: Date: August 6, 19, 26, 2019 Time: 12:30-2:30 Event: WOW Bible Meet / Music /Lesson Place: Various Homes (Gloria's this time) Contact us for location information!!! Our women’s group has decided that we will continue to meet during the summer instead of taking a summer break and those of us who are around and available will get together to meet, pray, study the Word or just fellowship. August 6 we will meet at Sauk Rapids Municipal Park at 11:30 am! *Liquid Assets is closed as of Saturday July 20 to prepare for new ownership. However in the meanwhile a new owner has bought the business and hopes to have Liquid Assets back open again mid-August under the same name as always. We hope that they will continue to open their doors for our bible study group to meet in the meeting room on Tuesdays. For now we will meet at individual WOW ladies homes, or in the park weather permitting. So if you are interested to attend, please contact us. (You can email me at: sam@samscales.com) Date: August 9-10, 2019 Event: Deerwood Summerfest (Warren's BBQ) Time: 10-5 on both days Location: Downtown Deerwood along the main roads Town: Deerwood, MN Hubby Warren will be serving up his famous Beef Brisket BBQ, BBQ Grilled Chicken, Cheese Curds and Fries and more.... Date: August 17, 2019 Time: 8a - 3p Event: From The Heart Art & Craft Fair Location: Outdoor on James Street & Augusta Ave Town: Paynesville, MN This is the second year we will be participating as street vendors. We will have one tent that Warren and I are sharing with his BBQ sauce and my NotesNBling jewelry. There will be food, music and lots of great vendors! Date: August 24, 2019 Time: 11a-4p Event: Common Roots Festival/Bazaar Location: Lady Slipper Parking Lot (by Perkins downtown St. Cloud) Town: St. Cloud, MN I will be there with my NotesNBling jewelry. Warren will have a BBQ tent to sell some food. NOTES-N-BLING UPDATE: With the upcoming events for NotesNBling, I continue to create new designs which will also soon appear in my Etsy Shop besides just being on my Facebook page. Which reminds me.... I do need to update all photos into albums on my Facebook page as well with prices and descriptions so you guys can find the items easier than just the photos on my newsfeed.... Yeah, lately the computer work is taking a back seat... :D Here are some photos of the latest projects.... email me if you like something! 'Like' my page NotesNBling on Facebook! IN ENDING:
Praise report and update on my brother-in-law Kent. He is doing much better and is home and ready to tackle the next adventure in his life! Thank you Jesus! We are still waiting for some other test results, but at least he is feeling so much better! Thank you so much for praying for him and please continue! Thank you also for praying for us as we have pretty much every weekend booked with events in August. We are looking forward to them, but they do take their toll on the energy levels. Music wise, I'm going to be playing more around the home front and in smaller settings such as my women's WOW Group, playing at the Hospice house, Life group, bible studies and The BURN 24/7 Central MN. Of course if someone would like me to come and play out of town, I'll be sure to make that happen :) Well, that's all for this update. Wanted to get it out on time....otherwise all the events be done before I'll sit down to type the Music Notes, haha. Know you are blessed, stay in a mindset of hopefulness and faith, Sam |
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