Welcome letter writing enthusiasts and those new and/or rediscovering the joys of letter writing. We celebrate letter writing here!

AnchoredScraps letter writing blog encourages old-style correspondence through handwritten letters between kindred souls since 2015

Whether the topic focuses on buying your first fountain pen, downloading a printable for jotting down a few whimsical sentiments, sending a post card, dusting off your typewriter, the joys of selecting vintage or new postage to our envelope cachets, adding to our stationery stash, or simply hand-writing a letter – it’s all fun and part of the journey with a blog post by Helen Rittersporn. 

Here you will find ongoing encouragement to regularly carve out a few precious moments to connect with others via “old” styles of correspondence, specifically in letter writing. 

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Philadelphia Pen Show 2019
Helen Rittersporn

Philadelphia Pen Show 2019

Fast forward to a month from now and it will be time for the Philadelphia Pen Show 2019; dates are Friday through Sunday, January 11, 12, 13, 2019. “The 2019 Philadelphia Pen Show will feature more than 50 vendors cascading across over 100 tables. You’ll find

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Smithsonian Postal Museum 1000 Piece Puzzle
Helen Rittersporn

Smithsonian Postal Museum 1000 Piece Puzzle

This very cool Smithsonian Postal Museum 1000 Piece Puzzle by the Jigsaw Puzzle Factory is our focus today.   In our family, we can usually find a puzzle working on during Christmas. It was a fun gathering earlier this evening for the annual Wilmington Philatelic Society

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Instructables Christmas Card Sewing
Helen Rittersporn

Instructables Christmas Card Sewing cards

We are beginning the new week looking at these DIY Instructables Christmas Card Sewing cards project. Perhaps today’s post finds you yearning to create a really remarkable gift from the heart for sending to one or many this year. The Instructables Christmas Card Sewing project I’m

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Dreamstime Christmas background letter image ID 103016376 © Jūlija Jermoļicka 
Helen Rittersporn

Sending Christmas Letter of thanks to…

Today we are looking at Sending Christmas Letter of thanks to… The ellipsis (series of dots, as in …) in my blog post title today is our focus for this idea I’m trying out this Christmas season.    Last Sunday I was sharing about writing

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Helen Rittersporn

Letters From War, a Washington Post podcast

Today we are looking at the Letters From War, a Washington Post podcast.  It was just two years ago today my blog post was on Remembering Pearl Harbor on the 75th Anniversary.   The subtitle I’m seeing for Letters From War is: “Hundreds of letters, written between

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Helen Rittersporn

It’s A Wonderful Life Museum Pictorial Postmark

I’m sending away for The Seneca Falls It’s A Wonderful Life Museum Pictorial Postmark for 2018! To begin with, The Seneca Falls It’s A Wonderful Life 72nd Anniversary Celebration Festival event is this weekend. Secondly, I’m including more on the event below, and how

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