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Rotary cutting skills ahead on show

Information on fine tuning your rotary cutting skills and creating semi-columns with different colors or prints of fabric will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain).

Debbie Caffrey, Debbie’s Creative Moments, will show how to fine tune your rotary cutting skills as she discusses safety and ergonomics of rotary cutting. Accuracy and efficiency are also rotary cutting basics. Caffrey is from Albuquerque.

Nancy Nix-Rice is a wardrobe consultant and author, and she’s going to explain how to create “semi-columns” with different colors or even with printed fabric or garments. Her book is titled “Looking Good.” She’s from St. Louis.

Information on the importance of effective communication and cooking shrimp will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” noon Tuesday and 2 p.m. Saturday.

Motivational speaker Sue Hansen will discuss “spouse talk” and the importance of effective communication. She emphasizes great listening skills and a desire to change behaviors. Her business is Sue Hansen Speaks, and she lives in Montrose, Colorado.

Cookbook author and chef John Vollertsen (more commonly known as Chef Johnny Vee) will demon-strate how to cook with inexpensive and versatile shrimp. He owns and operates Las Cosas Cooking School in Santa Fe.

Garlic and shrimp tapas

1/2 cup Spanish olive oil

8 garlic cloves, sliced thin

1 pound small shrimp (size 36-45), peeled

1 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes

pinch of kosher salt

2 Tbsp. chopped parsley

1 lime, cut into wedges

1 pound loaf crusty bread, toasted in oven

Heat olive oil in medium saucepan over medium heat until very hot but not smoking. Add garlic slices and allow to sizzle for one minute. Add shrimp, red pepper flakes, salt and parsley. Stir once, allow shrimp to turn pink and pour into a heated oven-proof dish. Serve immediately, garnished with lime wedges and with crusty bread. Serves four as appetizer.

“Creative Living” is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is carried by more than 118 PBS stations. Contact her at:

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