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Get a font made from your own handwriting

Sample of handwriting and pen

There’s nothing more personal than a handwritten letter, but few of us can find the time to write these days – especially if you can type quickly. So what’s the second most personal touch you could put on your correspondence? A font in your own handwriting. It’s also perfect for digital scrapbooking – your own handwriting on the digital scrapbook ... Read More »

Homemade Play Dough recipes

A lemon and a bunch of grapes made out of homemade playdough

It’s ridiculously easy to make homemade play-dough or Play-Doh. Making homemade play dough is less expensive than buying commercial versions. It also uses all non-toxic ingredients, and you’ll know exactly what’s in it if you’re making it for a child who has allergies. There are a lot of recipes out there than involve cooking, but these recipes involve no cooking ... Read More »

Old newspaper archives online

Some old newspapers

Once upon a time, before the internet existed, you had to read articles in newspapers and magazines. When you wanted to go back in time and find an old article, you had to go to a library and go through their periodicals. Now, as with so many things, you can often just go online to find old newspaper articles. Whether ... Read More »

Watch old B Movies for free

B Movies at FreeCinema.com

They were low budget. Some of them are under-appreciated brilliant stories with great acting despite cheap sets and bad film quality. Some of them are just plain bad – turkeys. Some of them fail, and yet you can see how they would have been fantastic with a bigger budget. And yet what all these movies have in common is: there’s ... Read More »

Get conversational in a foreign language for free

Language books and translation dictionaries lined up on a bookshelf

Speaking more than one language can be personally fulfilling. It may also give you an advantage in the job market. It takes discipline and work to learn a new language, but if you’ve looked into classes or language learning CDs and books and gotten the impression it would cost hundreds of dollars just to get conversational, there’s good news. The ... Read More »

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