Vanessa E’s blog

What’s new for Vanessa E.? We are excited to be working on a limited edition Acoustic Set CD! It will include a few favorite Christmas songs plus an original Vanessa E. Christmas song along with a few acoustic versions of some of our favorite original songs! This is something I’ve wanted to do for awhile and now we are! The release date is Dec. 2nd, just in time for Christmas! It will make a great gift along with the new

CD Meant To Be and Journal! All CD’s and journals can be signed and personalized if you choose. We are also looking to have a Christmas performance and gathering to share the season with you and perform some of these songs. We’ll keep you posted on all the details soon!

Also, we would love for you to help us out by listening to our songs at SoundClick. If you listen daily it will help move the songs up so we can appeal to new listeners!

Thanks again and God’s blessings to you!

Vanessa

Greg and I want to invite you out to a special evening with us and some fellow songwriters this Saturday the 22nd at Borders in Schaumburg at 7:00pm.

I will be hosting the event and performing some songs acoustically and sharing the stories behind them as well as the songwriting process. This event is designed to celebrate songwriting and showcase some talented local songwriters in an informal setting. You will also be able to interact with the artists by asking questions about the songs or songwriting. I’m super excited and hope you’ll join us! If you’d like directions, you can go to the shows page at www.vanessae.com.

Vanessa

The Singer Songwriter Showcase has been rescheduled for Saturday, Nov. 22nd.

I’m really excited to be hosting a Singer Songwriter Showcase on Saturday, November 22nd, at Borders in Schaumburg, Il at 7:00pm. Since I’m passionate about songwriting, I thought it would be great to team up with other singer songwriters in the area to share our music and talk about the songs and songwriting process. Not only do you get to hear great music but you will also get to ask the artists questions about their music!

I will be performing a few songs off of my new CD, “Meant To Be”. By the way, I’m taking requests! If you’d like to request a song off the new CD, please let me know by posting a comment!

I hope that you can come and hang out and enjoy some local talent! It’s going to be a special night and I hope to see many friends and make some new ones. It’s also my birthday! Just don’t remind me I’m getting older and don’t ask me how old I am and we’ll be good! Yes, I want to live in denial, I’ll grow up eventually!

Please check out the website at www.vanessae.com if you need directions or to listen to the songs and suggest your pics for the Songwriter Showcase.

See you there!

Vanessa E.

Just for fun I’m sharing things I like and dislike! We all have our lists so I decided to share some of mine. Feel free to share yours!

I love sunshine and warmth and I hate the cold. Don’t ask me why I live in the Midwest! I get cold pretty easy so I always keep a light jacket or sweater close even in the summer. Too many rainy days in a row gets me down!

I love being creative. Whether it’s writing a song (my favorite) or writing, singing, performing, teaching, recording, I feel I’m being who I am. It’s natural and I know I was made to creatively communicate. I also like to talk and I’m always working on listening better since my talking “gift” seems to want to take over!

I get to meet a lot of great people when I perform. I’m also blessed to teach to voice lessons and performing to some wonderfully talented people and I really enjoy that too. It makes me better as a singer, artist and performer.

I love going on dates with my husband and taking each one of our kids out one on one. We all get to know one another better that way. As a family we also love to cuddle together on the couch and watch a movie and eat popcorn!

I love to read and have a weakness for bookstores like Borders, Barnes & Noble and Christian Bookstores. When there is a Bargain Books I’m especially tempted and take home too many books. I prefer fiction because I love a good story but I also will read non-fiction books. I’m a little backed up on the non-fiction books since they take me longer to get to. I really like devotionals and journals. Probably not a big surprise since I write them. The newest one titled Meant To Be is not only a devotional and journal but is a companion to the new CD titled Meant To Be.

I love to eat but only foods I like of course! Like: chocolate cake, popcorn- (especially movie!),chicken wraps-I’m picky so I make my own. Noodles and Company has a great pasta & chicken dish. I love almost all Mexican food except menudo.  Baked goods like cakes, cookies and pies are on the fav. list although I’m really cutting back on sugar these days!

I like to exercise if it’s fun, like a kick boxing or hip hop class or going with a friend to work out or walk. I can tolerate the treadmill or work out machines only if I have my ipod. I’ve been known to turn around and go home (and stay there) because I forgot it. That’s how bored I get with out it!

This is just a fun list off the top of my head and this is already longer than I planned. I didn’t even get to Nature and shopping! So tuning out for now. Feel free to check out my website at www.vanessae.com to for more about who I am as an artist.

Vanessa

I just returned from an amazing evening at Celebrate the Journey in Naperville at Community Christian Church! I had the honor of sharing my faith journey along with a few songs off the new CD “Meant To Be” for a wonderful group of people. It’s always bittersweet to tell where you’ve come from because it requires remembering where you’ve been! Some things aren’t pleasant but my purpose in doing it is for two reasons. The first is to remind myself of what God has done in my life and the second is to inspire others to know God is faithful in their own story as well. When people thank me for coming and tell me they were blessed by my story or music I almost feel a little bit guilty because it’s me who feels blessed. Not only am I blessed by the people that tell me their stories but it’s cool to see how God speaks so individually to each of us.

I’ll never forget the young woman who came up to me after I shared my story in Romeoville. She had tears in her eyes and said to me, “Your story touched me more than you know”. Although I’d never seen her before their seemed to be a silent understanding between us. She didn’t need to tell me her story, her eyes told of the pain. Still there was something more revealed in her tear streaked face. Was it hope? A desire to receive and accept God’s love and freedom? God was speaking to her soul this I knew and I sensed the conflict wrestling inside her. I quickly gave her a hug and said, “God bless you”. I wished I’d said something more meaningful or personal, not that “God bless you,” isn’t meaningful, it’s just that it gets recited with a sneeze! My heart went out to her even though I didn’t really know what to say. My words were adequate at best but it didn’t matter. She was not there by chance, she was there because God wanted her to be there. He had something to say to her through my story and even through my awkwardness afterward. And so it is with the struggles and pain we turn over to God. He is some how able to use them for someone else’s gain and in turn we are the one who gets the blessing back.

So when people thank me for coming, it’s me who really needs to be saying the Thank You! So…. Thank You!!

Vanessa E.

I wanted to share a little bit more about the Celebrate The Journey Night I will be at. But first I wanted to say kudos to the Webmaster for the great job on the blog and updating the website!

Now back to this coming Tuesday, (Aug 19th). I will be worship leading in the large group time as well as sharing some of my testimony and performing a couple of songs off the new CD. I am praying and would ask for some prayers if you feel inclined, for God to lead me to share what He wants me to say. I’ve given my testimony there before and want to share some of the themes of God’s freedom and healing which are what the new CD “Meant To Be” is all about. Celebrate the Journey is a great ministry of support and recovery. They also have other groups on other topics. It’s open to the public and is a very casual and friendly environment. I will be part of the large group time and then they break into small groups at 7:30pm. It is very acceptable to come just for the large group if you are interested in coming but not in going to the small group. They also serve dinner at 6:30 for a donation of $3-$5. The location is at the Children and Arts Center in Romeoville. If you’d like directions, you can go to the shows page at www.vanessae.com.

Hope to see you there!

Vanessa

P.S-check out the writing songs page and feel free to comment!

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Great news! I can finally announce the official Meant To Be CD and Book Release date to you! Yeah!

It’s been a little crazy as I am finishing the Devotional Journal as we speak! It’s been a long time coming but we feel the CD is better for taking our time and we can’t wait for you to hear it! The lyrics will be posted on the site soon as well as clips and our site will be getting a bit of a new look!

Please come join us on Friday May 23rd at 7:30pm at the Children and Arts Center in Romeoville,Il. The whole band will be there and we are excited to have Dennis Ostermann on piano and keyboard joining us. He did an awesome job on the CD as well! There are more exciting surprise so I will keep them at that, so please come and tell all your friends about this special free concert!

Thank you to all who pre-ordered CD’s and helped support this project we truly appreciate you and your patience in waiting! We will have your CD’s ready for you on the 23rd. If you are unable to make it please let us know and we will make other arrangements to get you your CD’s!

God’s Blessings to You,

Vanessa E.

The CD is coming along great and is still in the mixing process. These things take time I have to remind myself. The CD artwork is almost done also. I’m getting excited for the CD release concert which we are planning to have in late April at the Children and Arts Center in Romeoville, Il. Once the CD is being duplicated I will then get the date out to all of you. I’m learning albeit slowly, that I need to hold off on dates until it’s ready!

There will be lyrics on the site soon for you to check out also.

Vanessa E.