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.
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
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
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
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
It should come as no surprise that with my Dad being an old sailor LOVED Gilbert and Sullivan! “The Pirates of Penzance” with the song from comic-opera: “I am the very model of a modern Major-General” was his favorite. If you saw the movie “Pretty
It was 50 years ago today that an American first walked in space – astronaut Ed White’s spacewalk on June 3, 1965 during the flight of Gemini 4. Imagine writing home about that! The two stamps together are also known as 5¢ 1967 “Space Twins” stamps celebrating
Our letters would languish without stamps to get them there! Have you seen the new stamps yet? Along with new rates that just went into effect (May 31, 2015) there are some new stamps too! The new postage rate applies to non-normal one ounce rate – the $0.49
On June 1st, 1938 Superman appeared for the first time! Superman was created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian Joe Shuster and made his first appearance on this day in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1, it sold for 10 cents! The photo
