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

Coloring book postcards

Today we are looking at coloring books that are now grown-up for us to enjoy and they can be included in a postcard format to send in the mail. In looking around today there are numerous coloring book stationery that one can send in the mail.   There are coloring books for grown-ups

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Helen Rittersporn

Prayers for Paris

Today’s planned topic for this blog post was to talk about World Kindness Day but given today’s events in Paris have found myself looking for messages for Comfort and Peace. This is one of my favorites of encouragement from Psalms: “But as for me, I will always have

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Helen Rittersporn

Autumn Potpourri

What a fast paced week it has been already! Today’s blog post is a collection of a few different items and so the title “Autumn Potpourri” – Grace Kelly’s birthday, Charlie Brown stamp, and Cuddy’s Quilt Update. Grace Kelly’s birthday is today Today is

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Helen Rittersporn

Veterans Day – November 11, 2015

Today’s blog post for Veteran’s Day includes sentiments from a email blog subscriber in Texas –  who assisted with placing over 900 American flags at the local cemetery near her home today.   Below is the email she sent sharing her sentiments on Veterans Day which I am reprinting here

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Helen Rittersporn

Semper FI & Sesame Street

Today, November 10, the Marine Corps is celebrating its 240th birth date and on this day in 1969 Sesame Street debuted.   Today I wanted to share a book I came across with the “incredible true stories written by one marine as a combat correspondent in the Pacific

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Helen Rittersporn

New Stamps in 2016 Sneak Peek

Do you enjoy adding stamps to your collection you use for putting onto your letters that you write to add some flair and variety?   It is fun to read that there is some information on the new stamps for 2016 (first half) – especially getting to

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Helen Rittersporn

Cuddy’s Quilt

It was a real treat to begin work earlier today, Sunday, with a neighbor on a quilt to remember Cuddy.    Today’s blog includes the 2006 “Quilts of Gee’s Bend” commemorative postage stamps, 39 cents – the sixth in the American Treasures Series, and from 1978 the four stamps

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Helen Rittersporn

Anniversaries for the heart

Happy Saturday! Today I was looking for a stamp wedding anniversary related – as today is our 23rd wedding anniversary and still think this wedding cake stamp that came out earlier this year by the USPS is really pretty and fitting. From June 02, 2015 AnchoredScraps.com

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