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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USPS Lena Horne Forever Stamp
Helen Rittersporn

USPS Lena Horne Forever Stamp Debuts Today

The USPS has been celebrating the Lena Horne Forever Stamp, which made its debut earlier today in New York. This beautiful stamp I’m looking forward to including among my stamps for upcoming #InCoWriMo letter writing! Over at the US Postal Service National News, there is an

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Cavallini Valentines Sets Vintage Mailing Set
Helen Rittersporn

Tale of TWO Cavallini Valentines Sets

We are looking at TWO Cavallini Valentines Sets on this Saturday morning! There is the Cavallini Vintage Valentines Mailing Set (lots of pinks) and the Cavallini Valentine’s Mailing Sets (lots of bolder red and black). My experience so far with ordering these type of Cavallini Mailing Sets

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Life Is Good Rubber Stamp
Helen Rittersporn

Life Is Good Rubber Stamp Letter Writing

Today I’m sharing the details for getting your own Life Is Good Rubber Stamp. This adorable rubber stamp I have had for a year now and it is a lot of fun. I’ve been meaning to post about it and when a dear pen pal

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Sleeping Bear Dunes Stamp Priority Mail Express
Helen Rittersporn

Byodo-In-Temple & Sleeping Bear Dunes Stamp

The Sleeping Bear Dunes Stamp for Priority Mail Express and the Byodo-In Temple Priority Mail stamp went on sale January 21, 2018. We are covering both along with the Pictorial Postmark of Byodo-In-Temple. My thanks to the Postal News, USPS Postal Bulletin, and Linns.com who I

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Letter Writing Sending John Mayer Typed Mail Instagram johnmayer
Helen Rittersporn

Typewritten Avalanche Sending John Mayer Typed Mail

For today’s letter writing-themed blog post, we are looking at a Typewritten Avalanche Sending John Mayer Typed Mail. There is a recent article over at The Typosphere on “John Mayer precipitates a typewritten avalanche”. Quoting that January 11, 2018 article: “Popular singer-songwriter John Mayer (shown here

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National Handwriting Day 2018
Helen Rittersporn

National Handwriting Day 2018

This morning we are combining John Hancock’s birthday with celebrating cursive writing for the 41st National Handwriting Day 2018. Furthermore, this is  ‘”International Handwriting Week” from Jan 21-27, 2018.’ This is my third year to write a post on it; here are links to my

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