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.
Today, May 27, is the day Mark Twain’s bronze figures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were erected in Hannibal, Missouri in 1926. In looking for a photo of that bronze statue I came across “The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete” – they are online at Project Gutenberg
Today, for many of us we are returning to our daily routines from a three-day-Holiday-weekend. There are the stresses of pouring the normal entire work week into four days this week instead of five days. Our normal rituals and morning routines may be off
Today on Memorial Day, May 25, 2015 we honor our military who have died for our country. The new Medal of Honor: Vietnam War Forever® stamps will be dedicated by the U.S. Postal Service at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC
In thinking of Memorial Day Holiday Weekend and WWII it feels like that was a different era and what came to mind is the number of movie stars who volunteered and served in WWII without the camera on them. From what I read in researching for today’s blogpost,
With it being Memorial Day Holiday Weekend I was reminded of the poem “In Flanders Fields”. The photo shown of oil on canvas upper left is “In Flanders Field-Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow (Coquelicots), Poppies by artist Robert Vonnoh, American Impressionist painter. Attribution:
It has been very exciting to find a printer who can accommodate my specs of having the first 100 blog posts from AnchoredScraps.com be in a hard cover book with every page in color in 8 1/2″ by 11″ format! I will be my own
Today on AnchoredScraps.com this is third visit by our family dog, Cuddy. Good morning! In Today’s blog I am sharing photos taken early this morning “in search of May flowers” as my dog-Mom Helen explained it to me. This morning while out on my first walk of
On May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the “Spirit of St. Louis”. The trip took 33 1/2 hours. He was the first to fly the Atlantic alone. Photo shown upper left “Spirit of St.
