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

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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Helen Rittersporn

Fountain Pen Day

Happy Friday! Today, November 06, is Fountain Pen Day.  It takes place “on the first Friday in November each year, Fountain Pen Day is celebrated by enthusiasts worldwide as a time to embrace, promote, and share the use of fountain pens.” It was a delight to

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Helen Rittersporn

“Bond, James Bond”

Happy Thursday!  Today we have three items – all James Bond related. Earlier this week there was an article about the new James Bond movie, Spectre (which opens in the U.S. tomorrow, on November 6) –  that it turned down a product placement offer for $50

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Helen Rittersporn

Footprints (& pawprints)

Happy Wednesday at AnchoredScraps.com!  Earlier today I was chatting with a friend of mine about Cuddy and about yesterday’s blog post taking things “Day by Day” and they suggested the poem “Footprints in the Sand” and wanted to know if I was familiar with it. Were

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