Learn about recycling for 'green' projects

Information on using inks and stamps to create backgrounds for craft projects, cavities and gum disease and making fringe flowers 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 in Villard, Minnesota. She’ll also show her line of stamps and colorful inks and demonstrate how they work on different types of paper.

Carol Vander Stoep is a dental hygienist, author and myofunctional therapist. She’s going to talk about the mouth’s central role in health. She says that cavities and gum disease are just symptoms of unbalanced ecosystems in our bodies. Her book is titled “Mouth Matters,” and she lives in Austin, Texas.

Designer and digitizer Laura Waterfield, owner of Laura’s Sewing Studio, says that fringe flowers add additional dimension to embroidery designs. She’ll demonstrate several types of fringe flowers that can be made with an embroidery machine. Waterfield is from Tomball, Texas.

Information on pressing flowers, fall foliage and using recycled materials for craft projects will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at noon and on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Kate Chu represents pressed-flowers.com, and she's going to show different ways that pressed flowers can be attached to different objects, such as magnets, jewelry, candles and even light switch plates. She lives in Anaheim, California.

Curt Jaynes will talk about how to have beautiful fall foliage, and what to do when the weather starts to turn cold. Jaynes owns and operates GardenSource Nursery and Landscaping in Portales.

Judy Novella is with Fairfield Processing Corp. in Danbury, Connecticut, and she will explain how to create “green” projects from recycled materials.

What is primal dentistry?

Perhaps we should question our casual attitudes about amputating tooth structures with high speed drills, using health-savaging heavy metals to fill the potholes, expecting our children to have shrinking faces (and airways) that can't hold a full complement of teeth, or suggesting a known neurotoxin like fluoride is a primary panacea against decay? Did our ancestors need these? Can't we know more, then do better?

Consider this: we are a walking collection of microbial ecosystems carrying 10 times more bacteria cells than human cells and 100 times more viruses. These can help or hinder optimal weight, mood and brain function, gut integrity, immunity, and so on. A more sensible approach is to control our internal environments so we predominantly host the microbes that keep us healthy and happy.

Parallels between soil and plant health and human health are striking. Just as pesticides often decimate the beneficial soil microorganisms and enzyme activity necessary for strong plants, systemic fluoride in-activates 68 enzymes and "foods" like sugars, other simple carbohydrates and processed foods skew human health in multiple ways. They create excessive acid waste in tissues and kill off beneficial microbes. Acid-loving hostile microbes like yeasts and germs that thrive in oxygen-free environments are happy to fill in and create health havoc. In the mouth, it is reflected as bleeding gums, crusty deposits, and tooth decay.

“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.