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

Remembering Lerner & Loewe

It is a delight to find the 1999 U.S. Stamp of Lerner & Loewe – they are the team whose work included Brigadoon, Gigi, My Fair Lady, and Camelot.    It is one of six stamps from the U.S. Stamps Commemorative issue – American Music Series –

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Helen Rittersporn

My first JetPens order (my ship has come in!)

Happy Saturday!  My first order from JetPens.com arrived yesterday in the mail and what a treat! Are you already familiar with the site?  They describe themselves as “JetPens.com is the source of sought-after writing instruments from Japan and all around the world.” I had signed up

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Helen Rittersporn

Plan B (Backup planning)

Back on May 30 I blogged about “Dad’s typewriter” and that I had found a place to have it get a ‘spa’ treatment/tune-up.  Today I’m here to share with you how important it is to have a Plan B – Backup Plan and to recognize at times when

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Helen Rittersporn

Three times the stamp fun!

Today has seen a lot of fun things with the stamp world:  1) the new U.S. stamps for the remainder of 2015 and 2016 were revealed – including Charlie Brown Christmas stamps, 2) there were two Forever stamps unveiled, and 3) all of this was done at the American

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Helen Rittersporn

Seein’ Stars Stamps (‘Cinderella’ stamps)

Today we are looking at Seein’ Stars stamps from the 1930’s.  I first came across them on May 27 when looking for stamps of classic movie stars.  It turns out in checking with my stamp club friend with the Wilmington Philatelic Society they are what are called by stamp collectors as “Cinderellas”

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Helen Rittersporn

Adding to our toolkit (ActiveWords)

You may or may not already be using the term “Adding to my toolkit” in your daily/weekly routine – but toolkit it is for looking at software to benefit us with productivity improvements.  By investing a little time up front we save a LOT

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Helen Rittersporn

Dog days of summer

Today we have a returning guest, our family dog Cuddy, it is his sixth visit to blog here (a monthly tradition here at AnchoredScraps.com). Happy Sunday on this third of five Sunday’s in August 2015!  When I came up with the title for today’s

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