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.
Receiving the 2019 Triangle Pen Show Postcard this week in the mail is compelling for seriously thinking of rearranging my schedule to attend it sometime during the May 30th & 31st – June 1st & 2nd dates. Next weekend is their 16th Annual Triangle
There are several USPS Forever stamps withdrawing from Regular Sale effective June 30, 2019; among them Dorothy Height, Henry David Thoreau, Lena Horne, and the Patriotic Spiral Booklet. I’m including below a partial list and link to the full article in yesterday’s Postal Bulletin.
The beautiful EJMDesigns Seaglass paperweight is calling my name for adding to my growing paperweight collection! To begin with, the number of my paperweights continue growing from four to now over 20 in the four-plus years of blogging daily. I’m seeing a future blog
The American Philatelic Society (APS) in their blog post today is on the USPS Celebrating Sesame Street 50th Anniversary. At the end of my post, I share why I am so fond of Oscar the Grouch! There are 16 stamps in the sheet debuting
Seeing the NEW CRANE Vintage Jeep with Surfboard Notecards is our beginning of Father’s Day Stationery ideas with Father’s Day a few weeks away. It has me immediately thinking of the station wagon from the 1962 Jimmy Stewart Movie, “Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation”.
We are looking at the Letter Writing ZITS Comic from 2019, March 24th. We have had other letter writing and comics blog posts over the four-plus years of blogging daily. One of my favorites is the Pearls Before Swine and Snuffy Smith Letter Writing Mailbox
Under the retro sentiment of all things old are new again, seeing the Freewrite Traveler reminds me of Osborne 1. Back in April while at WordCamp Raleigh 2019, I came across seeing the one in the display case I’m including while at the College
It is a Marvelous MCU theme on this Saturday starting with the Marvel 80th Anniversary Postcard Book available for pre-ordering. Before beginning, I’m including a YouTube showing the MCU timeline sequence of events leading to Avengers: Endgame. Also, I’m recalling last Sunday I included
