I started this hobby about a month ago or so. I love this old fashioned hobby because the communication is more real to me. I have lady friends that I write to from the USA and a few from foreign countries. When I started this hobby I went online to get some creative ideas. There was a lady who did a blog showing how she made interesting envelopes from old pages from the National Geographic Magazines. I started looking through my old magazines and came up with my own ideas.