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.
Welcome to the month of October at AnchoredScraps.com! Instead of the expected ode to pumpkins today I wanted to make sure to remind each of us that today should include stopping by the Post Office – you will want to be among the first to get the new Charlie
Happy Wednesday as we look at the September 2015 Recap! Today we are looking at a recap (in table format) of the blog posts for September 2015. The blog post number is included. Today marks number 217 ! AnchoredScraps.com September 2015 Recap Image Date
Both of today’s books are in celebration of two new books on Typewriters! They coincidentally also first appeared together back on my June 23 blogpost: Celebrating International Typewriter Day. My copy of the new book “The Typewriter” from UPPERCASE just arrived today! And an issue of Treasures Magazine via Richard
Welcome to a new week at AnchoredScraps.com. There are two articles you may have missed seeing that praise old fashioned letter writing that I wanted to share today. First, there is this from September 15, 2015 – the Los Angeles Times had this article entitled: “The art of
It is hard to believe that this is the last Sunday in the month of September. How quickly this month has gone by! Today’s blog post is short and sweet. It is a reminder that this Thursday will bring the new month of October – and are we
Happy Saturday! Fifty eight years ago today, September 26, 1957 West Side Story composed by Leonard Bernstein, opened at the Winter Garden theatre on Broadway. What I found interesting was this September 28, 2013 article in The Guardian: “West Side Story composer nearly gave
Happy Friday at AnchoredScraps.com! Watching North Carolina Weekend on UNC-TV earlier this evening there was a 4:26 minute story on the “Kindred Spirit Mailbox” on Bird Island near Sunset Beach, NC. Imagine discovering something like this is in my own state, relatively speaking, something one could
Given the tagline here at AnchoredScraps.com is “Balancing new technology communication with old-style corresponding”, to read in The Guardian there was a book that came out over the summer made up of all correspondence, letters, between two pen pals it caught my eye. In her first book,
