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Leap Year Letters 2016

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 29, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Letterwriting

Leap Year Letters 2016 is today's blog post - on Leap Year Day! Happy Monday! Today we are looking at writing Leap Year Letters and taking a quick note of…

Hollywood Vintage Postcards

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 28, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Postcards

Hollywood Vintage Postcards is today's Sunday blog post with tonight being the 88th Academy Awards - the Oscars! It will be held at what was the Kodak Theatre now known…

Upcoming Two cents postage decrease announced

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 27, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Postage Stamps

Did you see the Upcoming Two cents postage decrease announced this week? Happy Saturday and welcome to Year 2 here at AnchoredScraps.com! Thank you for all the well wishes I received…

One Year Blogging Anniversary

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 26, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Letterwriting

Today is my One Year Blogging Anniversary! It was a year ago today, February 26, 2015 that I pressed the Publish button on my first wordpress blog post here and…

365 Daily blog posts

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 25, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post

Today marks 365 Daily blog posts here at AnchoredScraps.com! Today's blog post finds me using the same Anchor image that greeted my first blog post here 365 days ago - “There’s Been…

Jack LaLanne Reads a Letter

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 24, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Thankful Thoughts

Jack LaLanne Reads a Letter is today's topic as we continue the countdown to Friday's milestone of blogging daily for a year here at AnchoredScraps! Today's blog title could just as easily…

Remembering Iwo Jima Stamp

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 23, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Postage Stamps

Remembering Iwo Jima Stamp is our blog topic as today marks the 71st Anniversary of the U.S. Marines taking the crest of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. It was years ago when…

Goal Setting Letters

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 22, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post

Goal Setting Letters is kicking off the week on this Monday! It is hard to believe we are almost through February and when looking at blog posts so far in…

Erma Bombeck The Unmailed Letter

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 21, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post

Erma Bombeck The Unmailed Letter is from her book "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?". It was first published in 1971. Happy Sunday!…

Project Mercury Stamp

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 20, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Postage Stamps

Today is the day on 1962 when John Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to successfully orbit the Earth. The stamp shown today is the 1962 4¢…

Laundry postcards

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 19, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Postcards

Laundry postcards is our Friday blog post topic! Today's blog post is short and sweet as I have laundry on my mind! Maybe we should make today's title "Clean and Folded"…

AnchoredScraps Thursday Mail bag

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 18, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Letterwriting

AnchoredScraps Thursday Mail bag is today's topic! Today we have a Mail Bag full of great items to share as a result of emails received from AnchoredScraps.com email blog subscribers…

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Air Mail Special Delivery and Liberty Valance

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 17, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post

Air Mail Special Delivery and Liberty Valance is today's blog post as we remember Gene Pitney on what would have been his 76th birthday, born February 17, 1940. Air Mail…

Thunderbird email by Mozilla

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 16, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post

Thunderbird email by Mozilla is today's Tuesday blog topic! Today's blog post is informational about the free email application and for a treat I've included the 1955 Ford Thunderbird U.S. Commemorative stamp!…

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Presidents Day and Presidential Letters

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 15, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Postage Stamps

Presidents Day and Presidential Letters is today's blog post topic with it being Presidents Day kicking off the new week! Presidents Day and Presidential Letters Today we are looking at Presidents…

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Love stamps

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 14, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Postage Stamps

Love stamps on Valentine's Day is today's blog post. Happy Valentine's Day! Love stamps There is a box of a framed 1988 Love stamp 45 cents - from the Stamps…

Vintage Valentines

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 13, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post

Vintage Valentines is today's blog post on this clear skies but cold Saturday! If you and I were to think back to Valentine's Day cards we would get from our…

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“The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time”

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 12, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post

"The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time" is a book Edited by David Lowenherz. Happy Friday as we go into this Valentine's Day weekend here at AnchoredScraps.com! "The 50…

Joys of February Mail

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 11, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post / Letterwriting

Joys of February Mail! Today's blog post is short and sweet and celebrates the Joys of February Mail. Among the snail mails received yesterday was included a Scooby-Doo…

Writing letters of Thanks during Lent

Post Author:Helen Rittersporn
Post published:February 10, 2016
Post Category:Blog Post

Writing letters of thanks during Lent is today's Ash Wednesday blog post. Usually I think of giving up something during Lent and this year I'm taking the approach of…