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.
If you take today’s date of October 24 and go back to 1861 – on this day in history – Western Union completed the first transcontinental telegraph line. Did you see earlier in the week, three days ago on Wednesday, it was “Back to
Happy Friday! Today at lunch I was able to stop by my local Post Office and pick up the NEW Geometric Snowflakes stamps – there are four designs in all. They are available beginning today nationwide and online – today is their first day of
In today’s blog post we are looking at a new book that is full of examples of how people have used their typewriter to create art through their selective use of the typewriter keys against the paper to use as a medium to create
Earlier in the year, on May 04, I wrote a blog post “Our letters reflecting pop culture: May the Fourth be With You !” about the new Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens movie to be released on December 18. It is fun to share that
If you dream of being able to have some ‘found’ relaxed time to stop and write that “proper Thank you note” to your dear friend, or catch up in general with your personal correspondence and never seem to have the time – then today’s
Welcome to a new week at AnchoredScraps.com! If you find yourself doing any kind of decluttering in getting ready for the Holidays ahead – I wanted to share with you the expression ‘moving the cannonballs’. Think about the expression after reading today’s blog post and see if you
Have you noticed how the colors have changed and we now see more orange, yellow, gold, red, plum purple, dark red, and browns to name a few colors? At first I was going to call today’s blog post ‘Images of October’ and write about
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”
