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 is National Handwriting Day 2020, January 23rd. Both the Museum of the American Revolution and the Lincoln Presidential Library have tweets celebrating #NationalHandwritingDay! In case you are not familiar with the day, I’m including this from the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association. “…January
The Postcard Set Wild Animals of the World is a collection of 50 postcards. It just came out in October 2019. It is by German illustrator Dieter Braun. The postcard set combines from both of his books, “Wild Animals of the North” (2016), and
Last week there was a Stamp Announcement on the upcoming USPS Wild Orchids Stamps arriving on February 21, 2020. While the majority of us will purchase the set of 10 designs in a double-sided booklet of 20 stamps (Item 682500), it is also available in
Today, with it being Martin Luther King, Jr. 2020 Day on 01-20-2020, I’m including my previous blog posts on this day. In addition, you’ll want to check out the Google Doodle honoring him. Before beginning, it was bound to happen that sometime during the
Seeing the Traveling Printable Writing Paper Set is a real find for me with its theme of “Travel Around The World”. The MailMagic Etsy shop is out of Bucharest, Romania. “For the analogue letter writer, an nice happy black and white printable paper. You
Seeing “Photography Video Studio Continuous Softbox Lighting Light Kit” really is the title for today’s blog post. My AnchoredScraps 2020 plans include having short videos on occasion to share here. After doing a tremendous amount of research and getting professional photography advice, I’m so
It is fun seeing the Celebrate the Century 1920s stamps commemorating The Roaring Twenties, the years 1920-1929. With the new decade of the 2020s, it is fun looking at the set depicting events from a century ago. The stamps include the Radio Entertains America,
In writing today’s post, I am mindful that the letters we write can be short little notes. Arriving in my mailbox today was a small folded notecard and in it just two sentences of cheer. It was from a local friend having just spoken
