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.
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
We are looking at the very creative Personalizing Letter Opener Gift Idea! One of the unique aspects of this particular design is getting to engrave on BOTH sides if we wish. Their headline for letter-writing enthusiasts caught my attention: “Give the PERFECT Gift of
It is an unexpected surprise to be Discovering the Mailbox Notecards Postcards Set from Smithsonian National Postal Museum! This bit of whimsical Novelty Mailbox Stationery Card Set is by Chronicle Books, first arriving in December 2018. One of the things I love about this
Today we have the 20th Anniversary Cachet Remembering 9/11. In addition to the cachet today at my local post office, I am sharing five scrapbook pages from my 2001 Yearbook with photos. They are from my capturing that day live from watching the television
The new USPS Happy Birthday Stamps 2021 are arriving tomorrow – September 9th! This is one of THOSE occasion stamps I’m definitely stocking up on as it is so perfect for sending Birthday wishes in the mail. The pricing with the recent price increase
