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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Cavallini Rubber Stamps Par Avion
Helen Rittersporn

Cavallini Rubber Stamps Par Avion

On this Wednesday Vintage Postal Marks with Cavallini Rubber Stamps Par Avion is our blog post topic.  Today I wanted to share this set I have ordered of wooden rubber stamps I will be using for personalizing stationery paper, envelopes, and use in card making too!

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Helen Rittersporn

Summer Letter Writing Goals Checkpoint

On this last Tuesday in June it is a great time to have a checkpoint on our Summer Letter Writing Goals for 2016!  This is continuing to be a fast-paced week as we march toward a long July 4th Holiday weekend!  Closing out the month

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Summer Fitness Activity Tracker Walking Goal
Helen Rittersporn

Summer Fitness Activity Tracker Walking Goal

It is hard to believe this is the last Monday in June and so today we are kicking off the week with Summer Fitness Activity Tracker Walking Goal! If you have been finding yourself enthusiastically sharing your Fitbit, Vivofit 2, Garmin Forerunner 235, or other

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July 4th Special Fancy Pictorial Postmarks blog post - This is the Independence Station Cancel
Helen Rittersporn

July 4th Special Fancy Pictorial Postmarks

There are two different July 4th Special Fancy Pictorial Postmarks being offered in the current Postal Bulletin. It was fun to learn that one of these July 4th Pictorial Postmarks include the postal approved July 4th cancel created by my local stamp club, the Wilmington Philatelic Society!

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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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