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. 

AnchoredScraps Blog Posts

Handmade Wizard of Oz Envelopes
Helen Rittersporn

There’s No Place Like Wizard of Oz Envelopes

We are starting off the week celebrating L. Frank Baum’s birthday with this set of handmade Wizard of Oz Envelopes.  And I’m including the final scene from the 1939 classic movie  The Wizard of Oz. On this Monday morning, I’m cognizant we are about as half-way in

Read More »
Maya Angelou Letter to My Daughter book
Helen Rittersporn

Maya Angelou Letter to My Daughter book

On this Sunday Mother’s Day 2017 we are looking at Maya Angelou Letter to My Daughter book from 2009. I’m including a three-minute YouTube introduction to the best seller by her. And I’ve got links to my previous Mother’s Day blog posts for 2015, and

Read More »
Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive 2017
Helen Rittersporn

Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive 2017 May 13

In the mail this afternoon, there it was – the grocery bag for Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive 2017 which is tomorrow, on Saturday, May 13th. The bag this year is blue! For the past two years I’ve included blogging about the Stamp Out Hunger

Read More »
Old Traveling Equipment Photo
Helen Rittersporn

The Art of Letter Writing Onsite Lost City of Z stars

Our letter writing interest today is on The Art of Letter Writing Onsite Lost City of Z stars, moving our geography to Brazil and the Amazon River. Over at Mail.com website there is an AP video posted yesterday. Special thanks to Joseph who sent to me the link via

Read More »
Map of USA 50 States with State Names
Helen Rittersporn

Call for participating 50 States Postcard Exchange

Happy Wednesday morning, May 10th, with today’s daily blog post which is a Call for participating 50 States Postcard Exchange.   Special thanks to AnchoredScraps.com email blog subscriber Julie who shared the below request she saw from a colleague. “Our St. John Kindergarten class

Read More »
auction gavel
Helen Rittersporn

May 2017 Stamp Club Auction

My blog post is on sharing the Joys of attending our May 2017 Stamp Club Auction earlier this evening.  Whether your hobby enthusiasm is with stamp collecting, fountain pens and/or paperweights, scrapbooking, collecting vintage plastic model airplane kits, knitting, bird watching, coin collecting, comic

Read More »
WWII Patriotic VE Day Postcard Cover
Helen Rittersporn

WWII Patriotic VE Day Postcard Cover

We are looking at a WWII Patriotic VE Day Postcard Cover listing I’m seeing on Ebay given today marks the 72nd Anniversary of VE Day May 08, 1945. Two years ago I wrote my blog post on Remembering 70th Anniversary of VE Day. I’m including this photo

Read More »

Search

Archives

Select Month

Categories

Categories

Milestones