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.
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,
Good morning! Welcome to Wednesday – today is the first day of fall, September 23, 2015. Also known as the September or autumnal equinox. It is “when the sun lines up directly above the Earth’s equator, resulting in almost every place on Earth experiencing approximately 12 hours
Did you happen to see Jeopardy! on Monday, September 21? Yesterday the television game show featured a category “Stamps” during that episode. The show has featured stamps on previous episodes including February 17 and May 4th. Over on Linn’s Stamp News site they posted
Welcome back to a new week at AnchoredScraps.com! Whether you are already off to the races and in full gear for the new week or are planning to ease into it – here is something to check out to kickoff the day and new week. You may enjoy
Happy Sunday morning here at AnchoredScraps.com. On my bookcase, nestled there among my books is one I’m sharing today that I have had for over fourteen years. The book is “Best Regards: Recovering the Art of Soulful Letter Writing” and was written in 1997
When was the last time we sent off into the mail an unexpected note of praise to a friend ? Coming across these fun finds at the dollar store last week prompted today’s blog post theme. They are simple items from the dollar store and
Happy Friday! Today on AnchoredScraps.com we are recalling Paul Newman as the Forever stamp honoring him was unveiled today in Cleveland. “With his blue eyes and on-screen charisma, Newman enthralled American moviegoers for six decades. Over the course of his decorated movie career, he received 10
At the community event calendar posted near the mailboxes today there it was – Constitution Day – hand printed in the square for the date September 17. On Twitter a tweet went by in the twitter stream with #ConstitutionDay and included the U.S. stamp shown
