Borden: Avoid telemarketing fraud with tips on show

Information on using chalk paint on furniture and optical illusions in interior design will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and at noon on Thursday. (All times are Mountain.)

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What goes around comes around. Remember that saying? People are still antiquing furniture but the products are just different. Connie Moyers is with the NM Cooperative Extension Service, and she’s going to show how to make your own DIY chalk paint recipe and how to use it on a variety of projects. She lives in Clovis.

Diane Romick, president and CEO of an interior design business, will explain how optical illusions can change the perception of space when designing an interior. She’ll show how different illusions apply to a room. She’s from Newport Coast, California.

Information on avoiding telemarketing fraud, preparing salads with pistachios and making window treatments will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at noon on Tuesday and at 2 p.m. on Saturday. (All times are Mountain.)

According to Linda Davis, Americans lose more than $40 billion a year to telemarketing fraud. She’ll talk about how to protect yourself as well as your family and friends. Davis is the vice president of operations for a bank in Portales.

Lisa Journagan, who works for a pistachio commission in California, will demonstrate making salads with nutritious and delicious pistachios. She’s from Fresno, California.

Author and designer Terrell Sundermann will demonstrate how to make a Roman shade and headrail and how to install both. She is from Englewood, Colorado.

California-style Pistachio Salad

Dressing:

• 1 clove minced garlic

• 1 tsp. Dijon mustard

• 1 Tbsp. Balsamic vinegar

• 6 Tbsp. orange juice (one orange, freshly squeezed)

Salad:

• 3 cups mixed baby greens (watercress, arugula, frissee, radicchio, curly endive and edible flowers)

• 1 tart apple (quartered and sliced)

• 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese

• 1/2 cup California pistachio kernels

Mix first four ingredients with wire whisk. Set aside for 5 minutes to mellow flavors. Wash and dry greens; divide equally among four salad plates. Top each salad with apple, blue cheese and pistachios. Drizzle dressing over each. Alternative: Toss salad ingredients together with dressing. Makes 4 servings.

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