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.
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
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
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
