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

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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Helen Rittersporn

Dad & Travis McGee

Happy Friday! Did you ever get around to reading the series of Travis McGee novels by John D MacDonald ?    Today is my Dad’s birthday – it is my first one without him, he would have been 86 years old.    I’m remembering that while I

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Helen Rittersporn

Revisiting the Rainbow Bridge

If you are not familiar with the poem “Rainbow Bridge” then you may have not learned of it from previously losing a beloved pet.   Dogs and Cats alike are what I typically think of who are at the Rainbow Bridge.   Over seven years ago I first learned

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Helen Rittersporn

Form Letters

You know those form letters you get in the mail that because they inserted your name (in a different color font) that it is supposed to make you feel it was personalized for you?   Have you ever received one of those form letters? Well today

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Helen Rittersporn

Typewriter Tuesday: Dad’s Typewriter is back!

Today is truly a Typewriter Tuesday with the arrival via UPS of my Dad’s Typewriter – it is now back after being away for what I have been calling its spa visit!  My blog post today was typed on Dad’s Typewriter, here is the text of it (image included

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