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.
On December 19, 1843 Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol” – the original title was “A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas”. The first time I recall seeing it was actually in cartoon with “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol” (1962) and it was
The day has finally arrived – December 18, 2015 and with it the release of the new Star Wars movie, “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens”. There are several friends I know who are taking their grown children to see the movie as they (we) were
In recalling previous Christmas reading lists it struck me that I have been missing one of my favorites – from a Good Housekeeping December 1931 magazine. It is called “The Red Glass Bowl” – A Short Story by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Frances
Today while I was out and about a friend needed some stamps and I was happy to have 3/4 of a booklet of the Charlie Brown Christmas stamps on me which solved their need. The timing is perfect for today’s blog post which the idea was
It’s Tuesday and what a delight to find the Author, Tom Hegg, reading “A Cup of Christmas Tea”. Have you ever read it? Although the book was first published in 1982 I had not added it to my collection of Christmas books. I will
It’s Monday and welcome to the third week in the month of December. Today we are enjoying the unlikely theme of including Disco Music along with our deadlines for getting our packages into the mail. On this day in 1977 “Saturday Night Fever” had its world premiere at
Happy Sunday – today is the 90th birthday for Dick Van Dyke! He just came out with a book “Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging”. It is truly amazing and exciting to see him enjoying his life today full of exceptional health.
At this point in the Holiday season we have been watching our usual repertoire of Christmas movies we plan to watch. For me – I love to have it include watching Frank Capra’s movie “Pocketful of Miracles” (1961). The entire plot of the movie hinges
