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  • Family, Food, Friends, Fun and Fatigue
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    Family, Food, Friends, Fun and Fatigue

    ByMary Crozier November 25, 2017November 25, 2017

    I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  It was so nice having all the children home and the house filled with their friends.  Today, as I take all the Thanksgiving items and store them away until next year, here are some random musings about the holiday. We had the biggest turkey ever~~a whopping 28 lbs,…

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  • Setting the Thanksgiving Table
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    Setting the Thanksgiving Table

    ByMary Crozier November 20, 2017November 8, 2023

    Food seems to taste much better when served in a beautiful setting.  Even though I didn’t have an extravagant childhood, my mother always set a lovely table for the holidays, using her Franciscan Ware apple pattern. Are you setting a Thanksgiving table? If so, here are some of my tips and tricks to creating a…

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  • Halloween Memories
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    Halloween Memories

    ByMary Crozier October 30, 2017October 30, 2017

    I know some people are not fond of Halloween, but I have such great childhood memories going trick or treating with my siblings in our small Connecticut town.  There was a cemetery across the street from our Dutch Colonial house. We would run by it really fast imagining all sorts of ghoulish things, squealing the…

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  • A Bit of Fall Decorating
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    A Bit of Fall Decorating

    ByMary Crozier October 12, 2017September 18, 2023

    I love the longevity of fall decorating~~you can start in September, adjust it a bit for Halloween and keep it until Thanksgiving. With a few small touches, the house feels like autumn. It helps that we’ve been enjoying such gorgeous cool mornings and evenings. Don’t you just love the light lately? The yard looks so…

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  • Best Fall Candles
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    Spicy Apple Candle

    ByMary Crozier September 19, 2017September 12, 2022

    I don’t know if I have confessed that I do not like to shop.  I really dread going to the store, especially if I need new clothes or shoes, or heavens forbid, a bathing suit or underwear. But I do have one or two favorite stores because they don’t feel like a chore, but rather…

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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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