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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Helen Rittersporn

Letter writing themed novelty items

Letter writing themed novelty items includes post card mouse pads and placemats in today’s Tuesday blog post. One of the things I really like about the first site we we are looking at today is they have an active blog.   Their site even boasts their feline Chief

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Helen Rittersporn

Daisy Stationery

We are kicking off the last week of March with Daisy Stationery today.  With Spring truly here I am thinking daisies today! The poet’s darling.  – William Wordsworth, “To the Daisy” Happy Monday!  This Thursday March 31 will be my 400th daily blog post since

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Helen Rittersporn

Happy Easter 2016

Happy Easter 2016 with these Vintage Easter Post Cards and being reminded of the television Series Finale from “Touched by An Angel”. Happy Easter 2016! The Vintage Easter Postcards shown are from The New York Public Library Digital Collections from their Easter Postcard Collection.  Not

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Helen Rittersporn

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross was written in 1707 by the same person who wrote the popular Christmas carol “Joy to the World”. The story of how Isaac Watts came to write not only this hymn but “an astonishing 750 hymns” during his life

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Helen Rittersporn

“St. Matthew Passion” by Bach

“St. Matthew Passion” by Bach is our blog topic today on Good Friday 2016. This intro sentence from a 2014 NPR Music Makers article caught my eye: “Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his St. Matthew Passion for a single purpose — to present the Passion

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Helen Rittersporn

Maundy Thursday 2016

Maundy Thursday 2016 finds me beginning an annual addendum to last year’s Maundy Thursday blog post and suggest this weekend we make the time to watch The Waltons “The Easter Story” Season One Finale Episode  from 1973. When I look at what I posted last year I still

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Helen Rittersporn

3D bulky lumpy dimensional mail

3D bulky lumpy dimensional mail is today’s Wednesday blog topic. Today we look at two sites as a sample of ideas for 3D mail, of what it is and how to best use it with our own letters.  It is to expand upon Monday’s

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Helen Rittersporn

Morse Code Themed Stationery

Morse Code Themed Stationery is today’s Tuesday blog topic. Today marks daily blog post #391 and before marking the 400th milestone on March 31 I wanted to be sure to include this fun topic today.    It is fun to see so many options

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