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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Gingerbread Christmas Trifold Notecards
Helen Rittersporn

Gingerbread Christmas Trifold Notecards

You’ll be wanting to have these Gingerbread Christmas Trifold Notecards on hand for letter writing while baking gingerbread! First, there are some beautiful gingerbread houses in our family scrapbooks on photos from Christmas past, showcasing a  most talented family member baking them from scratch!

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1977 Rural Mailbox Christmas stamp
Helen Rittersporn

1977 Rural Mailbox Christmas stamp

This 1977 Rural Mailbox Christmas stamp I’m seeing in a listing of Contemporary Christmas Series by the USPS.  Writing a daily blog post encouraging letter writing, I’m partial to stamps with mailboxes! How wonderful it is to see this stamp showing snow with a stuffed mailbox of

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Christmas Air Mail Envelopes
Helen Rittersporn

Christmas Air Mail Envelopes Digital Printables

Today we are looking at the self-service style of print our own Christmas Air Mail Envelopes. Having spent a good part of the weekend hand addressing all of the Christmas cards, I’m excited to see this option. Of course, there are more names to

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1964 Christmas 5¢ Stamps
Helen Rittersporn

1964 Christmas 5¢ Stamps

We are looking back at the 1964 Christmas 5¢ Stamps for our blog post today. Earlier this week when putting stamps onto a Christmas letter to a PenPal I came across a set of them; it was fun to put all four onto the

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Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R Tolkien
Helen Rittersporn

Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien

Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien is our letter writing topic today. At the conclusion of my post, I’m including a five minute YouTube video I came across by Pontus Presents; they walk us through the book construction while turning pages. I’ve been looking

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Letters to Santa White mailbox to Santa Claus
Helen Rittersporn

SANTA MAIL USPS Letters from Santa

The USPS Letters from Santa is our topic this morning greeting us on how to arrange for SANTA MAIL. It is important before we look at today’s whimsical post, to pause and here are my posts from December 07, 2016 Remembering Pearl Harbor on 75th

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Red envelope with holly and letter, for Ode to Christmas Eve Rainbow Bridge post
Helen Rittersporn

Ode to Christmas Eve Rainbow Bridge

Today’s post is an Ode to Christmas Eve Rainbow Bridge for our letter writing topic. The title for today could have also been: Sharing Rainbow Bridge Christmas Eve Story with our Christmas Cards.  I’m continuing the quest to complete addressing our Christmas cards and

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