 On behalf of us at Sam Scales Music - that be Warren and I - we want to wish all of our friends, families, supporters, "fans", church family and everyone who has touched our lives at some point in time all over the place - a very blessed Thanksgiving! <3<3<3 (that's hearts y'all) We want to let you know that we appreciate you, love and care about you and we want to say THANK YOU to all of you. Each individual one of you have blessed and touched our lives in one way or another. So many have given us words of encouragement, have sent prayers on our behalf and have cared about us and what took place in our sometimes crazy lives! You came to our concerts, you sang along, you worshiped with us.... THANK YOU for doing so! I can't express my gratitude in enough words to let you know how much that means to us! You all are so special! Every place that I have been, or that Warren and I together were able to come to play or minister in music at, we have been deeply touched and have made so many friends and we SO look forward to seeing each one of you as you've become like family to us! We want to encourage the little coffeehouse ministries, small churches, bible study groups we have visited all over the place, who sometimes struggle to make ends meet, or just getting started.... .....but you have a vision, you've heard from God and we THANK YOU for hearing from the Lord and fleshing it out and faithfully serving Him and loving people and giving folks a safe place to come to. A place where they can feel the presence of God and in turn desire more of Him and thus give their lives to Him! Thank you for all the hard work you put into your ministries, it's not an easy task sometimes, but it is an extremely rewarding one!!! We hope you know how much you all mean to us and we are looking forward to serving all of you again in 2018! Personally I also want to thank my daughters Cindy and Cheryl for their support, encouragement and love towards their entrepreneurial musician mom. Thanks for all you do! Love you both! HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!!! If you like, please email us what you are thankful for and - what your Thanksgiving plans are.... Love, Sam & Warren Here are a couple UPCOMING EVENTS for the rest of NOVEMBER: Date: Black Friday, November 24 and Small Business Saturday, November 25 Time: Black Friday: 10-4 & Small Business Saturday: 10-2 Event: Jewelry Open House - at Sam's place! Place: Email to RSVP and for address (unless you know) Town: Sauk Rapids, MN I will have the Open House! Please note the NEW TIMES! This weekend only: Discounts on Essential Oil Diffuser Bracelets and Necklaces! (Items already on layaway excluded). All Glass Bead bracelets are going to be 50% off. Draw your own sale!! Up to 25% off one REGULAR priced item of your choice to apply to!  Date: Saturday, November 25 Time: 7-9 pm Place: Lighthouse Christian Coffeehouse 315 Main Street Town: Rice Lake, WI The Lighthouse is having a FREE Chili Dinner and asked us to come back for this event and provide music. Excited to be back and enjoy our time of music and fellowship with the folks at the Lighthouse Center!  Date: Thursday, November 30th
Time: 6 pm Event: NotesNBling - Inspired Art Shop & Music Short time of music. Then shop for Christmas gifts or pick out a unique piece for yourself out of Sam's handmade collections. Hostess: Diana Fogderud Place: The Overflowing Cup, 1175 Madison Ave. Town: Beloit, WI Join Diana in a fun evening for the ladies with refreshments, music and yes, shopping! I will be playing 5-6 songs, l share quickly about "A Tested Stone". I'm hoping to think of some kind of NotesNBling Bingo game to do, we will have the "Draw Your Own Sale" drawing (up to 25% off towards the purchase of one item) and then open it up for shopping. All jewelry is designed and handmade by me.
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Here we are already entering the holiday season....time flies right? There are a lot of things coming up for me to do and I'm super excited about it. November brings 3 concerts in Wisconsin and some surprise events for my jewelry (NotesNBling) too! I'm thankful for those events, because that way I can introduce more and more people to my jewelry .....and thus in essence also to my music. What are your holiday plans? What excites you about this time of year? Email me! PERSONALLY: There's not too much to report from the home front. We didn't get all the yard work done we had hoped to do, the temperature drop kind of put a stop to being outdoors for longer periods. We are yet to finish raking up all the leaves, but we still have a tree with green leaves in the yard!! Crazy right?!! It's holding out every year. Love that tree, gives me green as long as it can! However the cleanup then drags into the colder temperatures which of course isn't a lot of fun. Soooo I do hope to get all that picked up before the snow flies! For Thanksgiving we really don't have any plans. Most likely we will be home as family lives too far away. At least Warren and I are together and I'm thankful we aren't alone.  UPCOMING EVENTS: Date: Friday, November 3 (that's tomorrow) Time: 5-9 pm Event: ART CRAWL Downtown St. Cloud Place: Fitzharris Ski & Sport (this is where I'll be set up at) 105 7th Ave. S Town: St. Cloud, MN This is a total suprise! I was looking on FaceBook this morning and just happened to see a post about the Art Crawl in St. Cloud. Curious I expanded the post to see when it was.... after contacting them via FB, got a reply back and Fitzharris Ski & Sport was still looking to host an artist! YEY! I was in! So come see me!  Date: Saturday, November 4 Time: 1-4 pm Place: Gospel Christian Coffeehouse 1726 N. Clairemont Ave. Town: Eau Claire, WI Thank you Greg (from Barnabas Coffeehouse) for inviting us to your new ministry adventure and allow us to be part of the beginnings of your ministry coffeehouse! We are so thrilled to see another Christian Coffeehouse being opened in the Eau Claire area.... now we need you guys to start heading towards MN :)  Date: Saturday, November 11 Time: 1-4 pm Place: Gospel Christian Coffeehouse 1726 N. Clairemont Ave. Town: Eau Claire, WI Second weekend with our friends from the new Coffeehouse ministry starting in Eau Claire, WI! If I think about all the music I need to play and if I were not to repeat songs from one weekend to another, I should be having 60 songs prepared! :0-O. Well, I'm sure we will have a good time, because there's lots of worship songs, my own songs and Warren has some saxophone music he will be sharing. So it'll be a good time not only in music, but also having fellowship time, which all of us believers need so that we might encourage one another.  Date: Saturday, November 18 Time: 7-9 pm Place: Lighthouse Christian Coffeehouse 315 Main Street Town: Rice Lake, WI We are excited to return to this ministry coffeehouse! We were there in September and truly connected with the Pastor and the folks who came. It is not only a coffeehouse but also a church holding Sunday services! Awesome!  Date: Sunday, November 19 Time: 12-4 pm Event: Stop & Shop Giving Thanks (Vendor & Crafts Show) Place: American Legion 2678 7th Avenue East Town: St. Paul, MN Found this event also via FB! Excited to be part of this event. This time in St. Paul, so I hope my friends from the Cities can come and shop at this event and visit me at my booth! Warren will be there too. I made him to have to come, haha!  Date: Black Friday, November 24 and Small Business Saturday, November 25 Time: Black Friday: 10-4 & Small Business Saturday: 10-2 Event: Jewelry Open House Place: Email to RSVP and for address Town: Sauk Rapids, MN I will have the Open House! Please note the NEW TIMES! This weekend only! Discounts on Essential Oil Diffuser Bracelets and Necklaces. All Glass Bead bracelets are going to be 50% off. Draw your own sale!! Up to 25% off one REGULAR priced item of your choice to apply to!  Date: Saturday, November 25 Time: 7-9 pm Place: Lighthouse Christian Coffeehouse 315 Main Street Town: Rice Lake, WI The Lighthouse is having a FREE Chili Dinner and asked us to come back for this event and provide music. Excited to be back and enjoy our time of music and fellowship with the folks at the Lighthouse Center!  Date: Thursday, November 30th Time: 6 pm Event: NotesNBling - Inspired Art Shop & Music Short time of music. Then shop for Christmas gifts or pick out a unique piece for yourself out of Sam's handmade collections. Hostess: Diana Fogderud Place: The Overflowing Cup, 1175 Madison Ave. Town: Beloit, WI Join Diana in a fun evening of shopping and music. I will be playing 5-6 songs, lshare quickly about "A Tested Stone" and then open it up for shopping. All jewelry is designed and handmade by me. MUSIC / EVENTS RECAP: Last month wasn't filled with a lot of music events, but we were able to take part of the BURN 24/7 Central Minnesota prayer/worship event. We always enjoy the presence of the Lord and the atmosphere of peace, worship and fellowship with the Lord. My NotesNBling Open House was a lot of fun and I enjoyed having some time of fellowship with those who came out. Since it wasn't super busy it gave us time to visit, connect and share stories. Here are a few pictures of some of my displays. I also found a Fall Sale Vendor/Crafts Show in St. Augusta on the 29th of October that was a last minute discovery! So cool to meet new folks and some awesome vendor neighbors. Two hand knitted winter caps made their way into my booth - best purchase ever! So warm and soft! Let it snow!! LOL. I know right? Coming from me who doesn't like winter! Thanks to crafter Nettie....I'm gonna be warm! Here are some pix of my booth. IN ENDING: As you can see the month of November will be quite the busy month for me. I've been designing and creating new things to get ready for the concerts and the vendor shows. One last thing I want to show you that I've recently added to my line of jewelry. Our good friend Larry from the Barnabas Coffeehouse in Eau Claire has been coming to pretty much every one of our concerts and it's always so good to see him. He came to me with a very serious suggestion....."you need MAN jewelry!" To my reply that I have now a men's line of Essential Oil Diffuser Jewelry, he shook his head and said: "You need to make Perch-Talkers". ?????? What?? Yup that was my reaction. Upon seeing a picture I laughed.... it's fishing lures!!! So guess what?! YUP, to give Larry a line of Fishing Lures, the Matt419 Lure line has been created! Take a look: In December I will be back in the Monticello, IL area. I'm working on a music date playing at The Vault, may be playing back at The Steeple, leading worship and playing a mini-Christmas Concert for a private event and if all goes well be heading to Indianapolis for the Pethead Christmas Party playing during dinner and sharing the stage for a couple songs with singer/songwriter Steven Billings and then enjoy the concert by Greg Hough, founding member of the Christian Rock Band Petra.
Lastly I want to share something that normally would have totally annoyed me, but ended up being quite interesting. Have you ever gotten one of those annoying phone calls that begin with: ".....congratulations!!! You've been selected....blablabla"..... and they won't stop talking no matter what you say? Well, I got one of those the other day. Normally I never answer phone calls from numbers I don't recognize, however with just having been at a vendor show a few days earlier and it being a local phone number I decided to pick it up..... only to get the above schpeel.... No matter what I said, this sweet voice of a young lady just wouldn't stop talking. I still have no idea if she was real on the phone or if it was a computer recording. But instead of hanging up I decided to do something different. See, she interrupted my bible reading.... so I just began reading to her where I had stopped off when the call came in. John Chapter 12 beginning in verse 30 and I got to verse 36. She kept talking the whole time and I kept reading the whole time. There was a pause....so I kept reading..... then she kept talking and I kept reading... then another pause and I kept reading....and she went on talking.... then all of a sudden "...I'm sorry I bothered you"...and the person hung up. Oh well, hopefully she was real and DID hear the Word of God being spoken. I could just feel the Spirit rising as I read God's Word..... it was a rising of joy inside as I was reading the scripture. Maybe....that's just what we should do to those annoying callers! :) John 12:36. While you have the light, believe in the light; in order that you may become sons of light. You all have a great November and a HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Blessings, Sam |
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