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.
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”
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
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
Today we are looking at the perfect place to use those colored pencils from yesterday – within the pages of “Make Beliefs – A Gift For Your Imagination” by Bill Zimmerman. We first introduced three of his books back in April and then revisited one in
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
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
Happy Sunday! Today’s blog post is about the book I started reading this past Friday – “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”. Have you already read it? One of the things I already love about this book is the story is told in letters. The
