You can can even make coordinating envelopes. Just use leftover scrapbook paper or any decorative paper you have at home.

For those occasions, here's a quick way to fold your letter into its own envelope. Sometimes you don't have any envelopes, and even more often you probably find yourself with the wrong size envelope.

Read more columns here. I recently had to send a paper letter for the first time in years, so I found myself folding a sheet in thirds to put it in an envelope. When I was growing up I was baffled ...