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.
British History in Thirty-six Postage Stamps is our blog title based on 2013 book “A History of Britain in Thirty-six Postage Stamps” by Chris West. Whether you are wanting to linger over morning coffee / cup of tea or if you find yourself rushing out
Barbershop Quartet email attachment kicks off our Monday with today, April 11, being National Barbershop Quartet Day. It was great fun discovering that it was a photo of his barbershop quartet that Nathaniel Borenstein included along with a short audio of them singing about MIME to his
Today with it being Sunday and being able to slow the pace down a little I wanted to mention a book I have ordered about Alan Jay Lerner Letters, it is entitled: Alan Jay Lerner – A Lyricist’s Letters by Dominic McHugh published in 2014. With all of the rain
Astronaut Alan Shepard Letter that he wrote to his parents is our blog topic today given on this day April 9, 1959 NASA introduced America’s First Astronauts for Project Mercury. Here we have a letter written by him just a few months prior to
Post Mark Collectors Club is our blog topic today exploring collecting postmarks and postal history – the group was founded in 1946. Happy Friday! Today we are just covering some highlights. Their scope is massive and I can see returning in a future blog
Mr Zip Vintage Novelty Items is our AnchoredScraps.com blog topic today with Mr. Zip US Mail Lunchbox, 1963 Mailbox Tin Bank, and Vintage Pinback Button. From my June blog post last year on Mr. Zip – “In 2013, the Post Office re-introduced Mr. ZIP to
Contract Postal Units is our AnchoredScraps.com blog topic today for awareness the next time you are out and about and notice their sign. Contract Postal Units Recently when out of town I noticed a sign stating that inside the ACE Hardware store it included a Contract
With National Letter Writing Month underway today we are looking at Pocket Letters. At some point it had to happen merging scrapbook elements with your pen-pal letters. This is a new spin on writing pen-pals – make that now calling them Pocket Letter Pals
