Borden: Fabric markers a focus on upcoming show

Information on animals and helping with PTSD, using new fabric markers, and nutritional supplements will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon.

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Matthew Festa is with Guardians of Rescue, and he’s going to explain how animals who have been trained through a program called Animals Helping People can help anyone with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, especially military personnel. He lives in Smithtown, New York.

Designer and crafter, Shannon Bielke will show how to use Tulip’s new fabric markers to decorate all sorts of items, including baby clothes, bags, tee-shirts and more. Bielke’s business is called Sha & Co. in Payson, Arizona.

Elizabeth Somer is a registered dietitian and author, and she says that more than one out of every two adults are taking nutritional supplements, making them the most popped pills in America. Are we wasting our money? Somer will talk about Supplement Savvy: What, how much, why and when? She lives in Salem, Oregon.

Information on making decorations and gift items, incorporating pesto in meals, and making pumpkin head dolls and jack-o-lantern boxes will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at noon and on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Connie Moyers, New Mexico Extension home economist, says that fall is her favorite season, and she’s going to demonstrate some fall decorations and gift items, including fat quarter pumpkins and zipper pins. Moyers lives in Clovis.

Did you know Pesto can be used as a salad dressing? Marcie Rothman, cookbook author and chef, will demonstrate several unusual ways to incorporate pesto in the meal, and since it comes frozen, it can be used year ‘round. Her company is Five-Spot Press and Western Research Kitchens in San Diego, California.

Denise White, owner of The Cat’s Pyjamas in Scottsdale, Alabama will show how to make a pumpkin head doll and some cute jack-o-lantern boxes for the fall season. She’ll show how to do the cutting, sewing, stuffing, and assembling of the doll, as well as painting the face and making the clothes.

Supplement Savvy

More than one out of every two adults are taking nutritional supplements, making them the most popped pills in America. Even if supplements are a good idea, how do you know what and how much to take, what to avoid and how to avoid spending too much.

Although it is highly recommended that people should get their vitamins from food, most people aren’t doing it. In fact, only one out of every 100 people meet even minimum standards for a balanced diet.

Americans’ diets are low in everything from vitamin A to zinc. Even children’s diets are lacking in nutrients important for growth, development, healing, brain function, learning and more. So, to fill in the gaps on the days when you or your child do not eat perfectly, it makes sense to take a supplement or two.

You can’t take a pill and expect it to save your life. Supplements are one factor in a healthy diet and lifestyle that has been shown help keep you slim, boost mood, extend life and the healthy years, and lower the chances of having to take medication. That’s why they are called supplements, not substitutes.

“Creative Living" is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is carried by more than 118 PBS stations in the U.S., Canada, Guam and Puerto Rico and is distributed by Westlink.