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June 2015 Recap
Today's blog post is a recap in table format of the blog posts in June. It includes the blog post number. Today marks…
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“Kid’s Summer Letter Writing Club”
Welcome to a new week on AnchoredScraps.com! Today’s blog post should be of interest to many of us especially as we enter…
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Summer blooms & letters
Today we are looking at the cumulative effect of our efforts - that they do add up - whether for our flowers and/or…
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‘The Farmer’s Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt: Inspiring Letters …’
Over the years at scrapbook events (called "crops") we have likened the day long/weekend events to Quilting Bees with everyone together while…
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Summer postcards
Today's blog post is about remembering to send those Summer postcards! One of the things I make it a point to pick…
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Dear Tooth Fairy
This is the letter I have written to the Tooth Fairy today. Dear Tooth Fairy, Today's visit to the dentist saved my…
Summer Harvest Stamps (& Farmer’s Market)
As the month of June begins to wrap up have you made it to your local Farmer's Market yet? Images of corn,…
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Celebrating International Typewriter Day
Today at AnchoredScraps.com we are celebrating International Typewriter Day 2015! It has been a big day of celebration at UPPERCASE (on Twitter…
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Approaching the halfway mark
Welcome to the new week! Today's blogpost is to remind and motivate us as we close out the month and begin mapping out the…
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Tying up Father’s Day
Today we are celebrating the icon we think of for Dad - with his ties! In 1997 the Bugs Bunny Commemorative stamp came…
One more Dad character (and a poem)
Today's blog post covers two ends of the spectrum - one with a movie that is not portraying the endearing type of…
Dad Characters in Movies (Worth writing home about!)
Happy Friday! As we go into the Father’s Day weekend I wanted to share some of my favorite Dad characters from movies that…
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“USPS Style Meets Sentiment”
Today I am starting off today's blogpost with saying Thank you! It was wonderful yesterday to receive several emails from individual AnchoredScraps.com email…
“Dear Miss Liberty: Letters to the Statue of Liberty”
With today being the 130th anniversary of the arrival of Lady Liberty to New York Harbor it was special to come across the 1986 book…
Remembering “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”
As we continue to approach Father’s Day there is a classic movie today that I wanted to pause and have us remember…
“Life with Father”
Welcome to the new week at AnchoredScraps.com! With Father's Day approaching, I wanted to kick-off the week with remembering the movie "Life with Father". …
“The little book of the flag”
With today being Flag Day it has been a delight to discover "The little book of the flag" written by Eva March Tappan…
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AnchoredScraps Mail bag
Happy Saturday! With writing a daily blog about letter writing I am now seeing more related stories when reading. There were four…
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Inspired from the beach
Having just gotten back from a fantastic afternoon at the beach with family I am inspired to make sure to return to walk…
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Pool Season (has arrived)
Today on AnchoredScraps.com this is the fourth visit by our family dog, Cuddy. It has arrived - Pool Season! Summer is finally…
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My Ten Favorite blogposts (from the first 100)
This week I was sharing with a special new reader the list of My Ten Favorite blogposts from the First 100 at Anchoredscraps.com. Why not…
Realizing your dream
Yesterday I was delighted to talk on the phone with a dear friend who has this past weekend gotten her first horse…
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Looking for Zip Codes
Recently while waiting in line at the post office – there was a couple behind me and they were frantically looking for…
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In praise of sealing wax for finishing our letters
Today's blogpost is in praise of taking a few minutes to use sealing wax to affix a seal on our letter before placing…
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Letters written after D-Day
June 6, 1944 was the day of the Normandy landings (D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Today's blogpost is sharing this…