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.
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
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
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
Thank you for the emails that came in overnight and today with condolences for our losing Cuddy, they have been salve on our hearts. Please know how much each of you are appreciated and I will reply to each email, text, and snail mail letter individually. Instead of a planned theme topic of
Dear AnchoredScraps.com blog reader, Our sweet family dog Cuddy passed away this afternoon. It was a privilege to have him in our lives 7 years, 3 months, and 22 days. This is the hardest blog post I have written since launching the site on
Welcome to the month of November at AnchoredScraps.com with looking at November goals. It is hard to believe it is already here! November goals Today’s blog post is short and sweet as we anticipate a very fast-paced month – have you already planned out the
Hanky alert! Today’s blog post is bittersweet as we anticipate it being our family dog Cuddy’s last blog post here, as he has been a guest each month since launching the site. Within the last four weeks he has gone from being full of
Today’s blog post is out of this world – namely Mars! On this day in 1938 listeners heard the historic radio broadcast with Orson Welles of “War of the Worlds”. That broadcast brought nationwide panic with his realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth, from the science fiction
