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

Seventy-Five

75.  This is the number that jumped out at me when reading about This day in history, October 17, 2015.    “There are 75 days left in the year.”   Today marks the 290th day of 2015.      Thanksgiving is less than six weeks away! Today we are celebrating “75”

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Helen Rittersporn

The Letters of Noah Webster

Today is Noah’s Webster’s birthday and you have probably already thought to yourself upon hearing the last name Webster, to then think “Webster’s Dictionary” before you have even finished reading this sentence!     At the Today In History at Linns.com it is highlighting: Noah Webster

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Helen Rittersporn

Adding some humor to our letters

In the spirit of having a little whimsy on this Thursday, here is a question for you – When was the last time you added something funny along with the letter you wrote?  (Okay, don’t say it, “when was the last time I wrote

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Helen Rittersporn

Colored Pencils (Erasable!)

Today’s blog post is a multi-colored-fun item for use with our letter writing, calendars, and more: Erasable Colored Pencils! On Sunday I found my using high-lighters to use for color coding in my new organizer was bleeding through the paper so off I went looking

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Helen Rittersporn

Christopher Columbus (& one of his letters)

Today is Columbus Day. It was interesting to see that in March of this year a court in Spain ruled no to an auction of a 1498 letter penned by Christopher Columbus to his son Diego; it was banned from leaving the country saying it is

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Helen Rittersporn

Garage Sale Saturday

This morning was the neighborhood-wide garage sale.  I knew it was remote to hope to come across an old stamp collection or even bundles of old letters with the postage still on the old envelopes or even to find some great books from someone

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