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.
The USA Philatelic 2020 Spring Volume 25 is available beginning today, April 16th. It is available free of charge including shipping (details are below). In addition, I’m including the link to the online PDF. Next, you will notice on the cover of the USA
In writing today’s blog post on the Ayn Rand 33c Stamp, I learned she enjoyed stamp collecting, “with particular interest in issues from the Ryukyu Islands and Iceland”. Also, I would be remiss in writing about her if I did not mention her 1957 novel,
The Let’s Celebrate Delightfully Awesome Postcards is one of the COMPENDIUM products I’m loving seeing on sale! Writing today’s blog post also finds us in the middle of April with National Card and Letter Writing Month 2020. Since 2015 soon after beginning this blog,
The American Garden Stamps 2020 are arriving one month from today. First Day of Issue is May 13, 2020, in Winterthur, DE. There are 20 stamps featuring 2 each of “10 different photographs of botanic, country estate, and municipal gardens taken between 1996 and
Happy Easter 2020! So many wonderful things today. First, a reminder of the Andrea Bocelli Easter Sunday Live Music for Hope April 12 today on YouTube! Thanks again to Vicki. And if you are looking for a wonderful movie to watch, over on Netflix is
How the virus stole Easter is a poem by Kristi Bothur. It is a delight to be sharing with her permission. Besides the poem, I’m including at the end a link to a previous whimsical blog post on 8,385 jelly beans! To begin with
The Upcoming Andrea Bocelli Easter Sunday Live Performance is our blog focus today. Happy Good Friday 2020! First, my sincere thanks to Vicki for sharing with me about it. Upcoming Andrea Bocelli Easter Sunday On April 12th, the Andrea Bocelli Music for Hope will be
The Suay Face Mask Sewing Pattern 2020 is available online for free! It is hard to believe it is Maundy Thursday already. Today is a follow-up to my Tuesday blog post this week “On sewing DIY Face Masks to give away” which included referencing
