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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Letters is our Wednesday focus with today being the day on March 16, 1850 his book The Scarlet Letter was published. Did you ever get around to really reading the book in school or did you just take the test? It was
The Thornton Wilder 1997 Stamp along his book, The Ides of March is today’s March 15th blog post. This is the same Thornton Wilder whose three-act play of everyday life in American small town Grover’s Corners I recall reading in High School. In The Tragedy
Dear Professor Einstein is our blog post today as we remember Einstein on his birthday, born on March 14, 1879. As we start a new week, today’s Monday blog includes includes the 2002 book of the Title “Dear Professor Einstein” that has Albert Einstein’s Letters to and from Children, there
Saving daylight postcard 1918 is our timely Sunday blog post today. I’ve also included a photo jigsaw puzzle of “Daylight Savings during World War One!” Saving daylight postcard 1918 The Saving daylight postcard 1918 is timely given we just set our clocks ahead one
Mailman Jigsaw Puzzles is our Saturday Anchored Scraps blog post topic! In our family sometime during the year someone will usually have a jigsaw puzzle underway and how much fun it is to come across these two Mailman Jigsaw Puzzles today. Very fond memories
2016 Graceful Envelope Contest Call for Entries Underway right now. Timing is everything and there is time with the deadline for submitting postmarked entries no later than March 28, 2016. The 2016 contest theme: Communication. 2016 Graceful Envelope Contest Call for Entries Underway From their website:
Ordering Easter Bunny Personalized Letters is today’s blog post with still enough time to order! Have you seen the different options that are available for ordering Easter Bunny personalized letters on line? Today we are looking at two different services available from what I thought
Letter Carrier Barbie is our blog title given The Barbie Doll debuted on this day in 1959. We’ve got a Barbie whose outfit was made from old carrier uniforms, a Barbie Post Office Playset, and the Barbie Doll U.S. Stamp from 1999. I still recall in the mid-1960s
