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Elizabeth B. Knaus

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Born

in Appleton, MN, The United States

December 22, 1961

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Artisan Elizabeth Knaus of FreshRetroGallery offers genealogy Family Tree Notebooks and Charts in the Handmade department at Amazon. Her useful genealogy poster helps you preserve names, dates, places; plus, her workbook offers ideas to help you to bring up conversation topics and write about personal memories of your family ancestry. It’s all about collecting, saving and passing on the history of one child or a group of siblings (brothers/sisters). These two products help you gather random bits and pieces of your family’s past and compile them into one beautiful keepsake to cherish or to give blank as gifts for gift recipients to complete. Her decendant chart design helps keep track of the family today—alive, changing and growing! It has a Artisan Elizabeth Knaus of FreshRetroGallery offers genealogy Family Tree Notebooks and Charts in the Handmade department at Amazon. Her useful genealogy poster helps you preserve names, dates, places; plus, her workbook offers ideas to help you to bring up conversation topics and write about personal memories of your family ancestry. It’s all about collecting, saving and passing on the history of one child or a group of siblings (brothers/sisters). These two products help you gather random bits and pieces of your family’s past and compile them into one beautiful keepsake to cherish or to give blank as gifts for gift recipients to complete. Her decendant chart design helps keep track of the family today—alive, changing and growing! It has a place for 4 generations that can be filled in and edited as we live.

Elizabeth B. Knaus wrote, photographed and designed “5 Miles Round Trip for Exercise and Quiet Inspiration” as an experiment in publishing an illustrated picture book for adults. It’s designed like children’s books—colorful, easy-to-read, uplifting and inspirational. Fun as gifts or to jot a personal message in them and use in place of greeting cards. The book is for individuals, couples, married men and women in traditional Christian families who lead busy lives filled with change and stress, those who value religious spirituality, desire to share faith, enjoy exercise in nature and appreciate art. Find the book ISBN 1320458793 at Amazon.

As a child, Elizabeth Ann (Busse) lived near Appleton, Minnesota. The fifth of six siblings born of entrepreneurial parents who specialized in seed cleaning and crop production, she grew up exploring nature on the shoreline of a beautiful lake--the ultimate place to develop an artistic, creative spirit. Appreciation of music, visual, industrial and performing arts ignited joy in her childhood home where growth in Christian faith was number one priority.

After acquiring an Associate of Applied Science degree in Alexandria, Minnesota, she began her career as a commercial artist at a quality oriented print shop in Brookings, South Dakota before moving to Kansas where Elizabeth grew professionally in Salina, along with the print and communication industry technology, as a progressive graphic designer for over 28 years. She opened FreshRetroGallery.etsy in 2010 which offers family gifts for baby, parents, grandparents and in-laws: illustrated ancestry and descendant genealogy charts and notebooks; as well as downloadable, printable graphic designs.

Pushing the envelope to develop and utilize God-given talent and skills, she delves into life with great curiosity. She enjoys peaceful exercises which include swimming laps in a pool and taking long walks exploring Lake Waconia in Minnesota.

Her known ancestry is 50% German and 50% Norwegian. Striving to balance work with exercise, family, friends, entertainment, hobbies and church, she is eager to share the Gospel of Jesus--Christian faith--with anyone who’s open to learn about it and be inspired.

Faith is a primary source of Elizabeth’s inspiration. She is at home with the church family in the confessional Christian denomination Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS). She believes the Bible IS the Word of God. It not only “contains” the Word of God, but actually IS GOD’s WORD and is the ONLY SOURCE of revealed truth--concerning Jesus Christ, faith and salvation--by which the church is governed. ...more

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Patience & Perfection: Finding Peace in God's Plan for You!

by Daniel E. Paavola

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Great Chapters: A Year with God in His Story

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A Year in the New Testament: Meditations for Each Day of the Church Year

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“Things rarely go exactly as we expect, but in the long run, they work out well for those who love God. His plan is higher than ours.”
― Elizabeth B. Knaus, 5 Miles Round Trip: For Exercise and Quiet Inspiration

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“Go to church and get directions so you won’t get lost.”
― Elizabeth B. Knaus, 5 Miles Round Trip: For Exercise and Quiet Inspiration