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.
It is the First Day of Spring 2020 and I’m always going to be remembering it as blogging while in the midst of WordPress server migration! First, thank you for the participation already with showing interest in Piloting Virtual Letter Writing Gathering. I’ll be
Piloting Virtual Letter Writing Gathering is our blog focus for today. Given the circumstances of the world right now, I’m seeing an opportunity for us to gather for a series of virtual letter writing gatherings. First, I’m pulling myself away from spending way too
Today is St Patricks Day 2020. First we are looking at the 2020 March 17 Shamrock Station Pictorial Postmark available by request. The day had lots of cancelled events due to the Coronavirus crisis. This included no local stamp club meeting, nor Lenten Lunch. I
Its time for a Knock Knock Say Thanks Multiple-Choice Self-Mailers. Greetings on this Monday as many of us are finding ourselves: a) being at home more, b) working from home, c) home, d) not being out and about in the coming days (and weeks).
The Doctors Mayo 1964 Stamp & First Day Cover is the last of three themed posts this weekend. In preparing for writing this post, I came across an article over at MayoClinicLabs from 2017. In it, it shares about the 1964 postage stamp honoring
We are looking at the Polio Vaccine Developed Stamp issued in 1999. On this Saturday it is 3.14, Pi Day.This is the second in a series of three themed blog posts this weekend looking at stamps from our history recognizing overcoming medical adversity. As a
The Famous Americans 1940 Dr. Walter Reed 5c Stamp & FDC First Day Cover is our blog post today heading into the weekend. It is the first of three in a series of blog posts I’m writing this weekend given the COVID-19 Pandemic. Seeing so
We have Paw Wax Seal Stamp for adding to our envelopes with letter writing today. And I’m including this photo of Cooper pawsing enjoying an impromptu ‘pool pawty’ at dog daycare today. It is nice especially given we will be staying close to home in the
