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.
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
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
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
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
