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 USPS Gifts of Friendship Notecards are a great option for considering for Mother’s Day with beautiful dogwood and cherry trees. I still remember the rows of cherry trees about to burst into bloom while visiting Tokyo, Japan for a week during April 1998
The Storyteller movie, from 2018, I’m sharing on this Saturday afternoon. Watching it earlier this week on Amazon Prime was worth watching. In addition, I’m including three movies I’ve blogged about before that you may have missed that have letter writing in its plot.
Seeing the invite advertising Spring Type Out pennysmiths paper over at The Typosphere has me smiling; it is this Sunday, April 28, 2019, in Albuquerque. First, I’m wanting to be sure to extend a warm welcome to the newest AnchoredScraps email blog subscribers! Spring
In the USPS Postal Bulletin today it includes announcing the Ellsworth Kelly stamps arriving May 31, 2019. If you can be in Spencertown, NY on May 31, 2019, you could make arrangements prior to attend the first day of issue ceremony. The stamps are
The Little Mo USPS Forever Stamp Honors 1950s Tennis Champ Maureen Connolly Brinker. While stopping by my Post Office today, I was able to pick up a sheet of them. The First Day of Issue (FDOI) Stamp Ceremony was yesterday in Dallas at SMU.
The April Showers Bring May Flowers Printable is on sale and still timely for including for a stationery option with our letter writing. Over at the Etsy Salt and Cove Design Company, it is on sale, 30% off, so $3.50 instead of $5. And
Today is Earth Day 2019 and we are looking at the USPS 1991 Heart Shaped Globe Stamp. “The 29¢ Love stamp for 1991 was exceptionally fitting – the Earth in the shape of a heart. With the Persian Gulf War foremost in the news,
Happy Easter 2019! If you find yourself up before the crack of dawn on this Easter morning, I’m posting extra early today. We are looking at the illustrated Victorian Easter and the Springtime Celebrations of a Romantic Age book by Dave Cheadle from 2007. I’m
