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

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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Helen Rittersporn

In praise of sealing wax for finishing our letters

Today’s blogpost is in praise of taking a few minutes to use sealing wax to affix a seal on our letter before placing into envelope for mailing.   The traditional sealing wax (mine each have a wick in them) I have had for a very long time.   For me

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Helen Rittersporn

Letters written after D-Day

June 6, 1944 was the day of the Normandy landings (D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.   Today’s blogpost is sharing this website by PBS with letters written by American soldiers in Europe after D-Day. These letters are included in the “Letters from the Front” part

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Helen Rittersporn

My Dad

Today’s blogpost is blogpost number 100 – having blogged daily since launching the site on February 26, 2015.  It is being shared today so that it is included in my upcoming book which is going to contain the first 100 blog posts of AnchoredScraps.com.  Ideally I would have

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