  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
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  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  So here we are in July and I TOTALLY missed my June Music Notes! It's like summer got here like a whirlwind and we have been doing so much stuff, to where it felt like I didn't know if I was coming or going. Honestly this start of the summer has been the most taxing and exhausting time for us both, physically and a bit emotionally too. Yet, so thankful that we are still able to do what we are doing. However we are needing to re-think some things and make adjustments for next year. The fireworks season was another less successful venture, so we are most likely going back down to one tent, keeping the one in Sauk Rapids for the Tent Revival. The Burn 24/7 Central Minnesota Music, Worship and Prayer day is such a blessing after fireworks sales are over. A Boy Scout leader approached us in Waite Park at the tent so hopefully they will be interested to man/staff this one with volunteers for their donation of the proceeds. BBQing has been going great, almost too great as Warren has been getting quite a few more events and caterings. With the heat and just the two of us, it's been quite the challenge though. Guess we aren't getting any younger. Haha. Warren is so thrilled how much people have enjoyed his food! Well, more about all that in the details coming up below. So read on....  UPCOMING EVENTS: Date: July 23 & 30 / August 6, 13, 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 weekly even 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. Sadly *Liquid Assets will be closing as of Saturday July 20 (that's today as I'm writing this) and it's sad. It's not that the place hasn't been successful, but I think the situation is that the owners are getting older and are ready to sell the business. So therefore we no longer will meet there and until we find a new location to meet (or a new owner takes over and still lets us meet there), we will meet at individual WOW ladies homes. So if you are interested to attend, please contact us. (You can email me at: sam@samscales.com) *UPDATE on Liquid Assets. (7/23/19) A new owner already has bought the business and will be opening the coffeehouse back up mid-August! Yey!! So most likely if the new owner is open to bible studies in the back room, the WOW Ladies will be meeting there again! Stay tuned! I will make changes on this page once they are confirmed.  Sneek Peak into August's dates. Date: August 2, 3 & 4 (Friday - Sunday) Event: Flekke Fest Times: 10-5 (every day for Crafts Fair) Other events times see poster. Location: Downtown Elbow Lake Town: Elbow Lake, MN Hurray! We got in!!! Warren and I will be set up in front of KR-Digital store. They also carry my jewelry line in their store! He might have his BBQ sauce for sale too.... So come on out, join in the fun and visit us in front of KR-Digital! 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. JULY RECAPTURE: About the middle of June our preparations for the two TNT fireworks tents began with getting tents ready (which were set up by TNT) with bunting decorations, getting tables ready for display, receiving the merchandise, doing inventory and then the sell dates from June 22 until July 6. It was a long selling season with lots of rainy days.... The best part I always look forward to is THE BURN 24/7 prayer, praise, worship, music event under the big tent once fireworks sales are over. So there are some pictures of all that: Hubby's Warren's BBQ - this time in Pierz, MN for the Freedom Fest. At Art in the Park at Munsinger Gardens. This event is every year on the Third Thursday of July. This year was a hot and sticky one for sure! NOTES-N-BLING Update: Now being able to be back in my Design Studio for NotesNBling, there's a few new items being created in the last few days! So excited about some new techniques I'm trying out and already sold some that - hot off the design table!!! Here are some examples. Be sure to connect with me on my NotesNBling Facebook page if you are interested in some items! I will be updating my Etsy shop soon too! IN ENDING:
Music wise - It has been very different for me this spring and early summer. Usually I've been in South Dakota and Colorado in May/beginning of June. This year with InspireSong being cancelled and IndieHeaven no longer in existance as of May, I've missed my lil touring trip. Last year I was even able to go back "home" to New Mexico and visit South Texas, expanding my music tour to those places which was such a HUGE blessing. Truly have missed doing that this year, yet on the other hand it was also a blessing to be home and be of help to hubby and we got yard clean-up done and other little things that needed to be taken care of in the yard. Bigger things are still planned such as laying out the free granite pieces we got to make a BBQ area and make our waterhose area less muddy by laying out stone. Since it had been so hot and humid and we have had nothing but one event after the other that's still something we hope to get done and finished before the snow flies and the fall shows begin! Please pray for my brother-in-law 'Kent' who is dealing with pretty serious health conditions and is in the hospital in Oklahoma. Well, that's all the news for this go around. Hopefully I'll keep things more up to date again :) So, if you DO want to know where we are and what we are up to, Facebook is the place to be! There's 3 pages you can 'like'. Sam Scales Music, NotesNBling and Warren's Famous BBQ. (Up top in the upper right corner by the email sign-up, there are also all the icons for social media where you can find me! Just click on one of those). Hope everyone is having a good summer. Grateful for those warm temps in MN, because all too soon it'll be cold again. So we better enjoy the hot, even when it's humid! Just stay hydrated friends! See some of you at the next events! Until then, blessings and love, Sam   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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