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

Accomplishments in Space Commemorative Issue of 1967

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

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Helen Rittersporn

New Stamps for Rate Change

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

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Helen Rittersporn

“Stamp Day for Superman” (1954)

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

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Helen Rittersporn

Dad’s typewriter

IT arrived a few weeks ago – with the UPS delivery guy being so thoughtful in how he handed the big box to me.   I was beaming with pride in announcing, “It’s my Dad’s typewriter.  My Mom sent it to me for my birthday!”

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Helen Rittersporn

Discovering TeaMap powered by adagio teas

Earlier this week in my blog post “In praise of a cup of tea” I concluded with encouraging us to make the time and one could do a search in your area to locate a Tea room for planning an outing with a friend.   As

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Helen Rittersporn

Pure Imagination

Today’s blogpost is celebrating our pure imagination inspired from the song “Pure Imagination” from the 1971 movie “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory“.   The movie is an adaptation of the 1964 book by Roald Dahl.   It tells the story of Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum, this was

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