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.
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
Today we are looking at one of the Christmas carols we sing each year on Christmas Eve – “In The Bleak Midwinter”. Do you know this Christmas carol? It was surprising to me to see how many people have sung it – there is one
On December 5, 1963 the movie “Charade” was released and somehow prior to writing this blog I had not seen it! Back in September it was called to my attention from my stamp club friend that it was his Favorite Stamp Movie and I have
If you have ever thought about doing something extra fun with getting an actual Letter From Santa orchestrated or having a special holiday postmark on your greeting cards today’s blog post is full of details with the ‘how-to’ and there is still time. We have until
One year the book club I was in decided for our December meeting that year we would all take turns reading aloud from “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”. We obviously condensed it to fit the time for the book club meeting but it was a lot of
Today the National Park Service with the Pacific Historic Parks was live streaming the 74th Anniversary Commemoration for National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day; some of the events were live and some pre-recorded and I see they have posted photos from the event today. Seeing that someone declared today
Today’s blog post is all about the ‘humble’ Christmas Newsletter – perhaps that is a oxymoron about it being humble! How about you? Do you write them? We have one dear friend who we LOVE hearing all of their news each year and its written
At first glance if I were to have you go look through your collection of Christmas DVDs you’ve collected, you may not immediately think of this movie – it may not be on your list of ‘the usual suspects’. Today I was inspired (more on
