We are wrapping up the month enjoying these new USPS Nature Stamps on this Happy Easter 2024!  Hoping this finds you having enjoyed a wonderful Easter day! The azaleas here are in full bloom.  Tomorrow begins National Card & Letter Writing Month! New USPS Nature Stamps Just recently released these three new stamps have Spring all over them – the Garden Delights and Celebration Blooms, both First Class One Ounce stamp, along with the Wedding Blooms Two Ounce. On March 16, the USPS issued their booklet of 20 stamps of the Garden Delights Forever stamps booklet. Then on March 22, t ..read more

We are Celebrating 9th Year Blog Anniversary Today! In looking at the calendar, I did not want the day to get away from us without pausing to send my greetings and continued thanks! I sincerely appreciate you being on the journey with me over these past nine years! It feels like finally getting unpacked (a lot) from the move and getting into new routine. Earlier today when looking for postage stamps to put onto two outgoing letters, I had to smile seeing I was using from a Christmas booklet of Forever stamps! Thought you would enjoy this observation on my part – that while I could put my hand ..read more

Leaping into the New Year 2024 finds me writing the first blog post for the new year. I hope this finds you well and already getting into the new year routine.   February 2024 will be the THIRD time getting to include blogging about Leap Year. In addition, on February 26, 2024 it will be our 9th year blog anniversary here at AnchoredScraps! With that I am contemplating my blogging schedule and topics for this next year leading up to our 10th blog anniversary in 2025. More on that in February!  Be sure to check out the post on New Postage Stamps for 2024 over at the Letters & Jou ..read more

We are closing the month with Thankful Thoughts as we wrap up the year 2023.  I’m so thankful for having been able to move BEFORE the Thanksgiving holidays and to be writing to you from our new home.   I’m very grateful for continuing to be on this blog journey along with you!  With that said … I’m thankful for receiving so many Christmas cards this year! And with it seeing people are taking the time to create and send their cards. Yours truly is working on ours and plan to have them sent out by the Epiphany, January 6th.  Also, I’m thankful for the pen pals and friend ..read more

It is fun sharing we have a new return address!  Greetings from South Carolina! As a result of moving, I have recently discovered the very easy process for submitting your Change of Address with the USPS. What is especially nice is I was able to do it all online (link below). For those of you on my occasional snail mails I send out you will be noticing with my upcoming Christmas Cards our new return address! A New Return Address The timeline of keeping up with two parallel activities – selling our home of over 18 years we had built, while downsizing and building our new home has kept us ..read more

Seeing the new Thinking of You Forever Stamps 2023 finds me ordering a set of them for immediate use! On this Boo-ti-ful day, in addition to these newly released stamps from August, it is fun seeing a coordinated set of Thinking of You Notecards with envelopes and a pane of its stamps too! First, the sheet contains four each of the five different whimsical designs in the Thinking of You Forever Stamps, making for a total of 20 stamps in the pane. Thinking of You Forever Stamps 2023 Additionally, we see a range of various flowers, balloons, cute animals, sweet treats, and good luck symbols. W ..read more

Today’s post finds me Saying Hello Autumn 2023! This weekend has us switching over from September to October. And along with it the cooler weather is wanting me to get pumpkins for our front door porch steps!  Long time, no post! It is a delight to share that since my last blog post I have successfully had cataract surgeries on both of my eyes! Along with it is an amazing unexpected delight I’m finding is NOT needing my computer glasses! In writing this post today, I am doing so WITHOUT my computer glasses, nor having to magnify my screen font size! It is truly a joy to be seeing colors ..read more

It is fun seeing Mule Mail & Biblioburros program hosted by National Postal Museum Guest Artist Program with John Parra – this Wednesday, August 30th at 4pm ET. The full title is Mule Mail & Biblioburros: Reaching Communities in Unexpected Ways. It is an hour virtual zoom event. I’m including this link for registering for the free event with the NPM Guest Artist Program. “NPM’s Guest Artist John Parra examines interesting ways that animals have been used to deliver things to communities around the world!” While the focus age group is for families with children ages 5-10 years, I’m p ..read more

Dear AnchoredScraps Readers, Today we are Celebrating the Finish Line & Next Steps as my husband is officially retiring today! Cooper is off at dog camp and will be home later today to help join in celebrating.  I’m hoping today’s blog post finds you well as we are wrapping up the month of July. A warm welcome to our newest blog subscribers. Our post is a little different today, however I would be remiss if I did not pause and share today’s excitement with you! The past six months since my husband announced he would be retiring has flown by quickly. Not only is he retiring today ..read more

Organizing my letter writing stash continues … So …. it was a bit ambitious thinking I would tackle this in ONE week! Ta Dahhhh! So I’m back to share I’m continuing my quest! In the meantime, I’m got three stationery items by Figments Studio I’m wanting to find homes for them. Back in 2016 I wrote two different blog posts on their stationery and ended up ordering a LOT of it. I came across these three items below I’m including photos of them, they are still new and perhaps you can see yourself writing on them and mailing them instead of them sitting in a box.  I’m offering them for Free ..read more