CREATIVE CRAFTS MADE FROM PEANUTS GALORE AND MORE

About the Book

Simple to advanced craft novelties, plaques, decorations, wreaths, lights, and gifts; craft instructions for teachers of VBS, camp, scouts etc.; made with peanuts and other natural, collectible items. Some sculpturing with glue gun.

About the Author

Second to the eldest of nine children, Dorothy was born July 7, 1932 to Lawrence and Evelyn Graves on a farm near Williamsfield, Illinois. As a child she learned hard work and doing your best; and she still does not like sloppy work. She accounts her greatest influence to develop her artistic abilities to her grandfather, Sam Wolfe. Like her life, her hand is still steady as she works with her creative projects. After high school, she attended and graduated from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois with a B. A. degree and highest honors in art, which she taught for six years in public schools. After her conversion to Christ in 1956 her goals changed, and she soon became involved in teaching the Bible and evangelizing children. In 1963 she married Bob Beetler, after which they spent 40 years in home mission work in Oregon. During those years her art work was always subordinated to the priority of the work of the Lord, except when it was involved as an aid to the latter. She made up many visual aids. Since retiring from full-time Christian work, she now has time to develop creative things which she loves to do, and still teaches crafts at Bible Camp. She and her husband, Bob, moved to Nevada in 2003 to be closer to their son, Joe, along with his wife, Rhonda, and four grandchildren who live at Spring Creek, Nevada. By her husband, Bob Beetler