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.
Today while we await the Total Solar Eclipse this afternoon, my blog post topic is the 2017 August 21 Eclipse Pictorial Postmarks Challenge. First of all, we are kicking off the new week! We’ve got references to the current USPS Postal Bulletin, Linn’s Stamp News, Collect
Southern Illinois University has been hosting this weekend the Carbondale Eclipse Comic Con 2017, the first-ever Comic Convention hosted on the campus. In addition, the Carbondale post office is offering “special eclipse-themed postmark for collectors”. My blog post tomorrow will have a LOT on all
We are enjoying this morning looking at some of the Solar Eclipse Post Cards available online. Instructables Make Your Own Viewer And in time for Monday’s Solar Eclipse, Instructables has a great post on walking you through step by step to make a Simple, Affordable, High
Today we are looking at Men of Letters WWI book by Duncan Barrett. The full title is “Men of Letters: The Post Office Heroes Who Fought the Great War” from 2014. You will want to have your cup of coffee or hot tea
In the US Postal Service Postal Bulletin today it includes showing the D-Day Ohio Conneaut Pictorial Postmark available August 17-19, 2017. D-Day Conneaut is a premier living history event; the annual event recreates the D-Day Invasion of June 6th, 1944. About the D-Day Conneaut 2017 Event The
Today’s blog post finds us looking at the Blu Monaco Desk Mail Letter Organizer. If you have found yourself starting to declutter your letter writing area this may be of help. While it is a different purpose from having an antique style Letter Writing Lap
Today we are looking at this set from Etsy of RV Camper Cards Stationery. With Summer weather you may be planning or aspiring for a camping trip. My letter writing to pen pals this summer has been including “talk” of investigating the range of different
Today is a follow-up on some of the items recently mentioned here at AnchoredScraps.com with our topic of August Mailbox Letter Writing – on books, kits, and post cards too. The hard back just arrived of “Letters from the Way” by Barbara Anderson looks like a really
