Back to School (& Lunch Box Letters)
Welcome to Monday on AnchoredScraps.com. This morning included the sounds of the school bus pulling up to load the neighbors children signaling…
Remembering Lerner & Loewe
It is a delight to find the 1999 U.S. Stamp of Lerner & Loewe - they are the team whose work included Brigadoon, Gigi,…
My first JetPens order (my ship has come in!)
Happy Saturday! My first order from JetPens.com arrived yesterday in the mail and what a treat! Are you already familiar with the…
Plan B (Backup planning)
Back on May 30 I blogged about "Dad’s typewriter" and that I had found a place to have it get a 'spa' treatment/tune-up. Today…
Three times the stamp fun!
Today has seen a lot of fun things with the stamp world: 1) the new U.S. stamps for the remainder of 2015 and 2016 were…
Evoluent Ergonomic Mouse & (counting the blog post days)
Today's blog post makes 175 days in a row of blogging daily since launching on February 26, 2015! Back on July 8,…
Seein’ Stars Stamps (‘Cinderella’ stamps)
Today we are looking at Seein' Stars stamps from the 1930's. I first came across them on May 27 when looking for stamps…
Adding to our toolkit (ActiveWords)
You may or may not already be using the term "Adding to my toolkit" in your daily/weekly routine - but toolkit it…
Dog days of summer
Today we have a returning guest, our family dog Cuddy, it is his sixth visit to blog here (a monthly tradition here…
“Over the Rainbow”
If I were to start listing this cast of characters you would immediately know what it belongs to: The Great and Powerful Oz, Dorothy…
From a different angle
There is a 32 cent stamp depicting the moment the news of Japan's surrender hits the U.S. - most people recognize the…
The plot thickens (Elvis stamps sold early)
The email in my inbox this morning was so compelling that I changed what was planned for today's blog post to share…
All shook up (new Elvis stamp revealed today)
Today (if you haven't already seen or heard) the new Elvis Forever® stamp was revealed at Graceland. Today's blog post includes the almost…
Remembering our pets knows no season (hanky alert)
Up front let me share today is a rare "hanky alert" kind of post. So please know that going in and plan to take a…
Celebrating Smithsonian Institution (1846)
When you do your Estate planning and update your Will do you envision the legacy you plan to leave behind? Today we are…
Pinpointing our (letter-writing) goals
If we pause and look at our calendar for August it is already one-quarter over - tomorrow makes 21 more days in the month! …
Saturday morning cartoons (Snuffles, Muttley)
Happy Saturday! Do you remember Saturday morning cartoons as a kid? Today we are looking at two classic dog cartoon characters - we…
Scan Mailboxes (& wrapping up our Theme this week)
Today with it being Friday, we are concluding this week's theme of looking at mail service options with one final mail service. We are…
MyRVmail (and RVRoadTrip)
Today on AnchoredScraps.com we continue the theme of looking at mail services for getting your mail when you are away. The MyRVmail.com site and…
“Traveling Mailbox” (& song “Travelin’ Man”)
Today we are continuing our theme this week on AnchoredScraps.com in looking at options of what to do with your mail when…
New stamp honors the United States Coast Guard
Today, August 4, 2015 has been the First Day of Issue for the U.S. Coast Guard Forever® stamp, First-Class Mail one-ounce. There…
On the road again (& our letters)
This week on AnchoredScraps.com we are looking at options to still receive our mail when we are going to be away from "home"…
Taking a break (from the planning)
Recently someone I know just returned from a several month long sabbatical and they were refreshed and relaxed! While most of us with…
Bee-cause it is August!
Welcome to August at AnchoredScraps.com! Today is a bit whimsy and short in text given it is a delightful Summer day and…
Christmas in July (Santa Paws) (& July 2015 AnchoredScraps Recap)
With today being the last day of July, it is last call for "Christmas in July" themed blog posts, here at AnchoredScraps.com…