Choose the right batting for quilts

Information on using inks and stamps to create backgrounds for projects, making junk journals, and creating an English Garden will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon. (All times are Mountain.)

Designer and crafter Ann Butler will show how to use inks and stamps to create backgrounds for lots of different projects, including cards, scrapbooks, fabric designs, and much more. Butler’s company is Ann Butler Designs and she lives in Villard, Minnesota.

Marjolaine Walker is the owner and designer of Twelve Stones Scrapbooking, and she’s going to show a few of her “junk journals” as well as demonstrate how to make one. As you might imagine, a junk journal is made out of materials that are often thrown away, like used envelopes, tags, paper bags, etc. A finished one can be used for art or writing or anything you want to use it for. Walker lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Floral designer Carly Cylinder will show how to combine flowers and fruit in a basket to create an English Garden. This makes an inexpensive, yet impressive, arrangement that is great to use for many occasions. Her company is Flour LA and Flour LA Jr. and she’s from Brooklyn, New York.

Information on selecting quilt batting and pillow forms, embroidery patching, and choosing happiness after divorce will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at noon and on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Judy Novella is with Fairfield Processing Corp. in Danbury, Connecticut, and she will explain how to choose the right batting that will work best for your quilt, the correct pillow form and the type of fiberfill for every project.

Patsy Shields represents RNK Distributing and Floriani Stabilizers, and she will show how to make a patch by using an embroidery technique. Shields lives in Sellersburg, Indiana.

Author Jane Thompson will talk about how important routines and rituals are for the family, especially following a divorce. She will also discuss planning ahead, protecting the children, being grateful and realizing that attitude colors everything. Her book is “Choosing Happiness After Divorce.” She lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

Choosing Happiness After Divorce by Jane Thompson

A Woman’s 52 Week Guide to Living a Positive Life

Divorce is devastating for all involved, but you have choices in how the experience affects you! No matter how much time has passed since your divorce, this 52 week guide provides concrete methods for pulling out of despair and moving forward into the happy life you desire. This book explains how to:

• Gain inspiration to put anger and bitterness aside and choose love for yourself and children

• Overcome the stress and worry which accompany financial difficulties, dealing with the ex’s new girlfriend or spouse, loss of friendships and making tough decisions

• Stop hoping happiness will occur and take action to be happy everyday

Thompson shares with you how to choose happiness regardless of life’s circumstances. Happiness is a choice each person can make and though there will be sad or hard times, not allowing those moments to define you or to destroy you can make all the difference.

Additionally, each chapter contains a guided journal entry to help you explore your feelings and brainstorm ideas; suggested further readings sends you to seek advice from the experts and inspiration from others; and a recipe in each chapter provides a creative and fun way of bringing a smile to your face, and family and friends to the table.

“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.