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

“Life with Father”

Welcome to the new week at AnchoredScraps.com!  With Father’s Day approaching, I wanted to kick-off the week with remembering the movie “Life with Father“.  This classic family movie is set in 1883 in New York. This movie will be new to some of you, forgotten by some of

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Helen Rittersporn

“The little book of the flag”

With today being Flag Day it has been a delight to discover “The little book of the flag” written by Eva March Tappan (1854-1930), published in 1917.    There are numerous download options at that link for no charge, book contributor New York Public Library, Internet

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Helen Rittersporn

AnchoredScraps Mail bag

Happy Saturday!  With writing a daily blog about letter writing I am now seeing more related stories when reading. There were four recent items I wanted to share in case you had not seen them yet.  Why not see how many of them are news to

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Helen Rittersporn

Inspired from the beach

Having just gotten back from a fantastic afternoon at the beach with family I am inspired to make sure to return to walk on the sand more often.  I will be writing about today’s fun day in the sun in several letters to new pen-pals which will

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Helen Rittersporn

Pool Season (has arrived)

Today on AnchoredScraps.com this is the fourth visit by our family dog, Cuddy.  It has arrived – Pool Season!   Summer is finally here and how exciting it is to be able to see my friends at the pool.  For today’s blog post I am paws-ing

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Helen Rittersporn

My Ten Favorite blogposts (from the first 100)

This week I was sharing with a special new reader the list of My Ten Favorite blogposts from the First 100 at Anchoredscraps.com.  Why not take a few minutes and check to see how many of these you have already read.  It was hard to narrow the

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Helen Rittersporn

Realizing your dream

Yesterday I was delighted to talk on the phone with a dear friend who has this past weekend gotten her first horse – her dream realized!   So when I read about this day in history celebrating Secretariat I knew Horses it is for today’s blogpost.   At

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Helen Rittersporn

Looking for Zip Codes

Recently while waiting in line at the post office – there was a couple behind me and they were frantically looking for the zip code to add to their mailing label for their package being mailed.  In sharing with them they could use their

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