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’s blog we are looking at examples of what I was able to do with sending the index cards through my HP printer for creating my “From the Kitchen of Aunt Helen” header for creating my own custom recipe cards. To simply explain here is
It is proving to be a fast-paced week – hard to believe it is already Thursday! Today we begin using our supplies we have been rounding up! I hope that you too have been enjoying better weather this week – it has been great
“X” marks the spot for buried treasure in your kitchen for storing our recipes! We are mid-way through the week with our focus on organizing our recipes in the kitchen so we can have our top five ones we want to share in letters
What perfect timing today to receive in the U.S. Mail a recipe card from Mom! And we had NOT pre-planned her sending it for this blog post! Today we continue our quest to organize our family recipes – especially any with letters that may
We are kicking off the second full week in May and this week we are looking at adding some spice to our letters, baked treats, or recipes about them to include in our letters we send! It was a delight yesterday to receive a recipe I
Given the blog post on Friday was about remembering the 70th Anniversary of VE Day it was serendipitous to discover this poster from Mother’s Day, May 10, 1942 encouraging buy war bonds. Photo attribution (Upper left) By Unknown or not provided (U.S. National Archives and
Today’s blog post is focused on staying current with the new stamp issues being made available this month. To start with, the 2015 Special Olympics World Games commemorative stamp was made available nationwide beginning today, May 9th. It was fun to pick up a sheet of
and other events on this date. In looking at letters that would reflect events in history today, May 08, it would mean looking for letters of someone trying Coca-Cola for the first time (1886), to great crowds celebrating VE Day ending (1945), to someone writing about seeing the
