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

Ode to Saturdays Schoolhouse Rock

Ode to Saturdays Schoolhouse Rock is perfect for this first Saturday morning in April.  What a delight to see this article from January 2016 that Bob Dorough at age 92 is still playing and composing!  Included today is SchoolHouse Rock – “The Check’s in the

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Helen Rittersporn

National Letter Writing Month 2016

Today kicks off National Letter Writing Month 2016.  Welcome to April!   Thank you very much for your good wishes and sharing with me yesterday reaching the Milestone of my 400th daily blog post! Write_on Challenge to write 30 letters in 30 days If you

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Helen Rittersporn

Fan-written letters to John Denver

Fan-written letters to John Denver is today’s blog topic.  On this day, March 30th, his song “Sunshine On My Shoulders” reached number one in 1974.  Last year a hardcover coffee table book came out entitled: “It’s About Time – Letters to John Denver”.   In thinking

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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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