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  • Peony-Themed Luncheon
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    Peony-Themed Luncheon

    ByMary Crozier June 5, 2020April 7, 2025

    Teaming up with Kristin from White Arrows Home, Andrea from Design Morsels, Tarah from Grandma’s House DIY and Chas from Chas’s Crazy Creations for our DIY Blog Hop this month with projects for our dining rooms! (Make sure and check out all of the dining room projects following this tutorial)  Many of my friends are still hunkering…

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  • Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
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    Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

    ByMary Crozier May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

    Greetings from the White Mountains of Arizona. We are up at our cabin and the weather is 60 degrees this morning with sunny, clear blue skies. The community in Pinetop-Lakeside is small, with limited shopping and resources. Other than a few local grocery stores, you need to drive to the next largest town, which is…

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  • My Easter Table
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    My Easter Table

    ByMary Crozier April 11, 2020March 27, 2023

    I know many of us are having smaller Easter dinner celebrations this year. However, albeit cozy, it is important to make it special for several reasons. Easter is a time of rebirth, joy and celebration. Even though we may be apart from our friends and family, we are healthy and safe. Typically we have our…

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  • Making DIY Easter Nests
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    Making DIY Easter Nests

    ByMary Crozier April 8, 2020March 25, 2024

    In setting the table for Easter Sunday dinner, I needed something to make it feel more spring-like. I love birds’ nests and have a few, but don’t think it is very sanitary to actually place them at the dinner table. How difficult would it be to make some faux nests? The Royal Worcester dishes I…

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  • A Royal Novel Surprise
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    A Royal Novel Surprise

    ByMary Crozier February 12, 2020February 12, 2020

    My very first blog post in September 2016 was about a charitable English tea we had here at Bella Terra with New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author, Rhys Bowen. Not only was the event a wonderful fundraiser for Family to Family, (they provides scholarships to students in rural El Salvador)…

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Welcome to Life at Bella Terra. I’m Mary and I am delighted you are here. Life at Bella Terra is about embracing what the present can bring by valuing what the past built. Here, from our historic property, I will share decorating, entertaining, gardening tips as well as my adventures in the kitchen. Occasionally you may see a DIY but it’s only because it was a rare success! I hope that this blog will be a place of comfort and joy and together, we will learn something from each other along the way. Learn more >

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