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

Taking a break (from the planning)

Recently someone I know just returned from a several month long sabbatical and they were refreshed and relaxed!  While most of us with our schedules do not have that luxury we can look at taking a day long break from the planning and demands on our

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Helen Rittersporn

Bee-cause it is August!

Welcome to August at AnchoredScraps.com!  Today is a bit whimsy and short in text given it is a delightful Summer day and like you am enjoying today being the first of FIVE Saturday’s in this 31-day month! This quote seems perfect: “When Summer opens, I see

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Helen Rittersporn

Thank you!

It is always a joy to receive a hand written/hand printed Thank You note!   How about you?   While we can email, or text or even phone someone – the Thank You note can be re-read and remembered.   They can be Thank You notes, letters,

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Helen Rittersporn

Summer Continues (& our projects!)

We are nearing the end of July 2015 and will be moving into August this weekend.  Today we are reviewing where we are with our letter-writing themed projects.  The intent is to take action to ‘finally get around to squeezing’ into the remaining weeks we have prior to Fall activities are upon

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Helen Rittersporn

Upcoming APS StampShow in August

Did you have a stamp collection growing up?   If you are finding yourself wanting to do something different before September is here – there is time to make plans for the American Philatelic Society (APS) StampShow, August 20-23, 2015. The event is to be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan (On

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Helen Rittersporn

Pressed Flowers (Stationery)

Today I wanted to share something fun to do in making our own pressed flowers and putting into our correspondence.  This is something special, can take no money if we are resourceful, and be a big splurge and gift of your time for a special

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Helen Rittersporn

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom…”

With today being the day the “U.S. postal system established” in 1775, I thought it would be nice to find out more about the unofficial “motto” for the U.S. Postal System. But first, to read about the U.S. postal system being established by the Second Continental

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