  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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 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  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 |
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