I started out with a faithful leap and the idea of setting out reminders. One passage that I kept coming back to was Deuteronomy 6:5-9.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

The first verse about how to love God with all your heart, soul and strength drew me in. But the rest of that passage hooked me. It was what told me the applicable action steps to get to that deep relationship with God. Loving Him with all that we are.

To love God and follow His commands we needed to impress His word on our heart. We needed to do more than just read it, we needed to study it, learn it, and live it. And one way to live out His word is to talk about it. It also says to tie them to your hands and bind them to our foreheads... well, they may have actually done this in ancient Hebrew times or maybe even today for those who practice traditional Judaism but probably not for us in our cultural context. So we need to figure out why they did this. Well, they did this to tangibly remind them of God, His Commands and His word. These symbols were meant to constantly draw them closer to God. To live in a constantly relationship with Him. Not just in the mornings but all day every day no matter what.

When thinking about how we wanted to create our Business around this passage, we needed to think about a way we set our reminders in our current day. When I need to be reminded of something, I take out my pencil, a handy Post-It note, and start my list. The idea of Notes came to mind and we fell in love with the new business name Six Notes Clothing.

As for the logo, we worked with a small business owner on the idea of combining and S for Deut. 6 and N for Notes. But it wasn't quite working. Then through sketching one day, we worked out a 6 and the tip of a pencil to represent "Notes!" This is now our current and forever logo and brand.

So if you thought it was a "V" you now know it's a pencil tip ;)
Don't worry, you weren't the only one.

Six Notes Clothing - Be Reminded and Show Whose You Are

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. - Deut. 6:5-9

The Meaning Behind Six Notes