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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Happy Friday as we take a quick look at the 1987 Fathers Day Envelope Cachets with the “Love You, Dad!” US Stamp. In my blog post last year going into Father’s Day weekend it featured the 1987 22¢ Love You, Dad! US Stamp issued on April
You will want to see the newly announced Jacquie Lawson Barbershop Quartet Fathers Day ecard. It has been created just in time for Father’s Day, and also can be used for birthdays and congratulations. Here at AnchoredScraps back in April we had Barbershop Quartets included for
