Also wishing everyone a happy new year! Think it's time for us to go look for some birds.

DH opening a gift from a cousin and thus a definite unknown. Credits: AnnaLift of '2015xmas' by vik1215 https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=342525&title=2015xmas&cat=1351 by Anna Aspnes -background, star overlay, transfers: ArtPlay Palette Star -transfer, tree...

Pictures from each month of 2015. Credits: -template: Freebie - Template 48 by ninigoesdigi https://ninigoesdigi.wordpress.com/2015/12/22/december-blog-challenge/ -blue paper, star elements: Hanabi by ninigoesdigi -black and gray papers: Gratitude @ Infinity by ninigoesdigi font: Baveuse

Wow, what a great way to illustrate your desire. Hope you get to Machu Picchu. It's a beautiful page.

What a delight of a page! Santa in the plane is so cute. You put together the most wonderful things with paper pieces.

I love all my gifts but single these out for their call to travel. Credits: all from Oscraps Collab Journey The photos and splat have a hard light blend mode, the mug in two layers. The map paper and journaling are in multiply mode. fonts: Dry Goods Antique JL, Chalk, Corbel

o - origami

C - Contra Costa County, California (how's that with 4 Cs?)

Chris, so glad you made it through in whatever shape it was. Guess everyone is recuperating or out after-Christmas shopping. It'll be a quiet day here but yesterday was great with long phone calls to distant family and lots of good cheer. I got the most important things all done though some...

I've migrated my recipe challenge into a greeting. Hope everyone has wonderful holidays. And enjoy the Christmas full moon!

n - nutria

h - homily (sermon; moralizing lecture)

R - Reynosa, Mexico

s - superb

My DH long ago. Credits: AnnaLift of 'O Tannenbaum' by helenedubois https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=342081&title=o-tannenbaum-2f-anna-lift&cat=1351 by Anna Aspnes: -background, overlay, transfer: ArtPlay Palette Wayfaring -frame, branch, clock, transfer...

F - Fresno, California

The morning started in lots of snow but never got too cold and cleared up. Pretty typical for our count. Credits: -background: In the Winter Forest [Papers] by MoosScraps Designs -mask: Colors of India by NBK Design -white transfer, mittens, snow: Oscraps Collab Hipster hOllyday -splat...

Oh, it's wonderful! Love the template flipped and reduced, lovely colors and aerial view of Santa.

t - tandem

This recipe originally came from the newspaper but I've changed it over time and it has become our Christmas Eve special dinner, festive with red and green. I probably make little changes every time. Credits: -background: Vintage Album Collection: Open Books Paper Pack by Joanne Brisebois...