November 22, 2010

Day One of "We're Live!"
Other than being extremely hyper-excited, I am very excited. I can't believe it. Well, there's tons of work to do yet..lots of music to enter. BUT I just can't stop looking at our site. Sigh.... Isn't it pretty????

Help Wanted

MESSIAH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH is looking for a Director of Chancel and Handbell Choirs at the Traditional service. "Applicants should have a passion for music and direction, a proven track record of excellent leadership, team-building, and recruiting skills. Interested applicants should send resume, references, and philosophy of ministry to
jobs2@messiahchurchmn.org".

Messiah United Methodist Church
17805 County Rd 6
Plymouth, MN 55447
763- 473-6968

November 6, 2010

Wow is this a fast year. We are continuing to work on the web site. It is currently being tweaked with new photos and rearrangements and better headlines. We will open before all the music is ready and inputted. But that's life. We are so close though.
I'd like to know how much money people have before they start a business because I feel like a money pit. Maybe we need investors, I don't know.
What I do know is that we are slowly crawling out of the pit we started in and people have been very responsive. We are truly blessed with great friends and support. I really don't care about my own salary, but I'd like to see enough money coming in that the bills are paid.
We are looking forward to the Director's Seminar next July and I hope also to attend the STEP solo/ensemble workshop next July. Every festival we can afford to be present at will be a step in the right direction.
Well, anyway, I don't always say write because I don't always feel I have something to write that is positive and up. It is definitely a hard walk to restart this business.
Prayers and good thoughts toward our getting an SBA loan please.

September 21, 2010

Ha!! Forgot my password and user name. Pretty good huh???? So I had to start all over with that process.
Anyway, I was so excited when someone came into the store and said he had found our blog. Really made my day!!! He not only found our blog, but he found our store because of the blog.
Hey!! We're on facebook too :o)
Anyway...you'd think I 'd be done by now with all the set up and web site, etc. NOT!
Norm is working on descriptions of music...and huge, major big deal and it takes forever. I continue to fill out spreadsheets, spreadsheets, spreadsheets. I sure hope this doesn't take until 2011.
Twyla and Jim came in and put up my Music Room puzzle and the cork board.
Now I don't have to tape comments to myself onto the wall heehee.
We've been selling alot of KidsRing and BellFest music. We really appreciate all the wonderful patronage up to this point. Hope to continue to see new faces.

August 21, 2010

Well, I'm all geared up for this coming week. See what it'll actually bring. The store is looking good. I'm slowly buying containers and display material. We've changed the handbell table as people weren't using it much. We do have the bell tree up with bells. Work on the web site is slowly coming along as is cataloguing all the vintage music. Norm is updating and fixing our Quick books program so all items are the same. We've made so many changes that we have to pull everything together into one style. Getting there though.

August 8, 2010

Norm and I are continuing to work hard at checking and rechecking the alphabetical boxes as well as the level boxes. Norm is doing a lot of the work while I am trying hard to continue with the web site and with cataloging the smaller publishers and the "vintage" music. Life is never dull.

July 25, 2010

Well, things are continuing to improve in our little domain. We are now tweaking our alphabet and level boxes. Tweaking because we get in a lot of music, but I forget to put it out in those areas. Sigh. So, Norm has taken that on now. Tweaking also because I am now into the daunting task of catagorizing all the music that is vintage or from smaller publishers. I've done some separately, but we have quite a bit of music that is "permanently out of print". In and around that we are working hard at getting our lists ready for the web site. We won't have pictures of music or sound files for a while. One of the hard parts for me is to describe a piece of music. I'm slowly getting there.
We're going to have a fall get together Aug 23 - 28. We have music for all the events happening in the cities area for 2010 and 2011 except for BellFest. That is coming. Bill has pneumonia unfortunately.
It's really amazing how computer oriented my work is...Norm's too. Maybe that's just for now and will lessen up as time goes on.