Welcome letter writing enthusiasts and those new and/or rediscovering the joys of letter writing. We celebrate letter writing here!
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.
The new Otters in Snow Stamps are otterly adorable! Their first day of issue was this past week, on October 12, 2021, by the USPS. In addition, finding these “Things I Otter Do!” Daily to-do list notepads have me smiling and thinking of using
It’s time for starting Sending Autumn Gratitude Notes out. Thanksgiving is six weeks from tomorrow, on November 25, 2021. Happy Wednesday morning! In addition, I’m including donor registration information for participating in the Operation Gratitude Halloween Candy Give-Back Program. In our neighborhood, it is
The Monster Mash Message Monsters Stamps is how I’m thinking of these just arrived Forever Stamps. I’m thinking of Boris Karloff and the 1962 song The Monster Mash, anyone want to dance the mashed potato or the twist too? Happy Sunday! Halloween is three
Discovering the whimsical Vintage Library Checkout Card Pencil Tin by Joyful Moose greets us today. It brings back memories of checking out a book at the library years ago. The company, Joyful Moose, is out of Northern Idaho near the Canadian border. If you
We welcome October and with it 2021 National Stamp Collecting Month! And if you ever deal with what to do with an ever-growing collection of tubs for storage it is a delight to include a brief decluttering update as my number of tubs is
We are looking ahead to World Postcard Day 2021! It is this Friday, October 1st. Especially of interest to me is the free zoom available by the Royal Philatelic Society London with their Collecting and exhibiting postcards presentation for World Postcard Day 2021. It
This is Just My Type of Washi Tape for what I’ve been looking for recently. Do you ever want to include an ode to typewriters on the back of the envelopes you send out? In looking around, I was noticing it was February 10,
With today being the First Day of Fall finding this set of Autumn Inspirational Postcards makes me happy! However, don’t you just hate knowing the days will be getting shorter and the nights longer? For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, with it
