For all your crafty types, here is a fantastic tutorial on how to create a BEAUTIFUL 5-pocket portfolio that is great for many things. This one was designed with the theme of travel, but the pockets are such that you hold a lot of great correspondence items in it.

This would also make a great low-cost gift for a lucky pen pal!

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I ran across a great post by Miss Jessica on how to be a good pen pal. She has some great tips!

I’d like to hear about your pen pals. Do you have any? Got any great pen pal stories? Please share!

If you DON’T have pen pals, why not? Have you seen the great magazine called The Letter Exchange? It’s a fantastic way to get high quality pen pals and they have a free forwarding service if you want security and anonymity until you feel comfortable with your new pen pal. Go check them out.

Photo credit: Andreas Nilsson

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My family gets Netflix and love it. The only really aggravating thing about Netflix is this little flap of paper you have to tear off and throw away leaving a reusable envelope you return your movie in. First of all, I have to say, “Yay, Netflix” for not double-enveloping in the first place. However, wouldn’t it be cool if there were something you could do to completely utilize ALL the pieces?

Sure you can recycle that extra piece of paper, but why not turn it into an envelope? You help save the environment and you can buy less envelopes to send your mail in.

My hat goes off to the clever folks at Netflix Origami! They’ll show you how to make the envelope I’m talking about. The next batch of movies we get in… you know what I’ll be doing!

Tags: clever, envelope, how-to, netflix, origami