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

Postal Museum Family Day SpongeBob Mailbox
Helen Rittersporn

Postal Museum Family Day SpongeBob Mailbox

Happy Saturday with Postal Museum Family Day SpongeBob Mailbox!  The Family Fun Day event today at the Smithsonian Postal Museum includes meeting SpongeBob SquarePants, a Stamp Collecting Station and Post Card Writing Station.  Love how they are advertising the event today – “Be there or

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Cooper Puppy Kindergarten Mailbox Letter
Helen Rittersporn

Cooper Puppy Kindergarten Mailbox Letter

Happy Friday as we get this update in the form of a letter today on Cooper Puppy Kindergarten Mailbox Letter. Dear AnchoredScraps Blog reader – Thank you for the nice emails I’ve gotten asking about our puppy.   Our brittany spaniel puppy Cooper is now 9

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Typewriter Day 2016 - QWERTY & Mellencamp
Helen Rittersporn

Typewriter Day 2016 – QWERTY & Mellencamp

Today is International Typewriter Day 2016 – QWERTY & Mellencamp is our blog post topic.   On this day – June 23, 1868 the Sholes and Glidden typewriter (also known as the Remington No. 1) – using the QWERTY keyboard was patented. The timing is perfect to have seen The

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The Lettermate envelope addressing guide
Helen Rittersporn

Lettermate envelope addressing guide

The Lettermate envelope addressing guide is our blog focus today.   Have you seen one of these yet?  It is an envelope addressing guide template that helps make sure the address is hand written/printed onto the envelope in a straight line. For my scrapbooking

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multi color paperclips on white background - Encouraging Letter Writing enclosures blog post
Helen Rittersporn

Encouraging Letter Writing enclosures

With summer officially here I’m encouraging Letter Writing enclosures in our mail we send out over the next few weeks. Happy Tuesday!  First of all, I find myself needing to write several letters and have decided now is a GREAT time to go ahead

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Summer Soltice - Summer Mon Mailbag Soda Fountain Favorites
Helen Rittersporn

Summer Mon Mailbag Soda Fountain Favorites

On this first day of summer we are kicking off the week with Summer Mon Mailbag Soda Fountain Favorites.   Today is the first day of summer! Just in time for summer now available for pre-order are the Soda Fountain Favorites US Stamps; these

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1991 29cent Fishing Flies image _ for Fathers Day 2016 remembering going fishing blog post
Helen Rittersporn

Fathers Day 2016 remembering going fishing

On this Fathers Day 2016 remembering going fishing is what I’m remembering about my Dad today. This is my second Father’s Day without Dad and I’m remembering how much he loved to go fishing.  Thinking of this finds me with a very big smile on

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rural mailbox, for Secondhand Lions blog post
Helen Rittersporn

Secondhand Lions Letter

On this Father’s Day weekend I’m thinking of the movie Secondhand Lions from 2003.  The movie lovingly shows the unexpected path of two-Great Uncles raising their great nephew.  He comes to visit for the summer in 1962 at their rural Texas farm.  You will love watching

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