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

Cursive Handwriting

Cursive handwriting is today’s blog topic and one I will be spending time on next year with including exploring Spencerian system of penmanship, Palmer Method of penmanship, and the McGuffey’s Readers lessons still available. Today we are looking at something overlooked and (probably)  under practiced – our cursive

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Helen Rittersporn

Radio City Music Hall & “Tomorrow”

The Radio City Music Hall first opened on December 27, 1932 and when I first read that the imagery it brought to mind was from a scene in the movie “Annie” (1982).  In that scene Annie is taken for a night out to the Radio City Music Hall that

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Helen Rittersporn

Planning now for next year – Christmas Stationery

Today has found us the day after Christmas and – if like me you found yourself making ‘notes to self’ that next year to get an early start and be more prepared with your Christmas stationery – then today’s blog post (although) short can be

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Helen Rittersporn

Paul Harvey Christmas Day Broadcast of 1965

Merry Christmas 2015!   This year saw the 50th anniversary of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” recognized with a commemorative booklet of stamps that feature 10 scenes from the classic TV special.   Fifty years! Today marks 50 years ago the Paul Harvey Christmas Day Broadcast of his from 1965, it

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Helen Rittersporn

Christmas songs: Hula-Hoops & hippopotamuses

In time for us while wrapping Christmas presents and writing out those Christmas cards here are two fun songs that are perfect fun – namely “The Chipmunk Song” (1958) and “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas” (1953).  By design today’s blog post is short and sweet! 

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Helen Rittersporn

“The Christmas Guest”

Today is the Winter Solstice – the shortest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere; it also marks my 300th blog post of blogging daily since launching this site!  How the time has flown!  While I had planned to share some sentiments about reaching this 300

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Helen Rittersporn

“Let’s Keep Christmas” (Peter Marshall)

So what topic made today’s blog post #299 ?   “Let’s Keep Christmas” –  A Sermon by Peter Marshall (1902-1949) This small book is (6 x 7) that is found on top of the stack of Christmas books in our guest room this time of year. 

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