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  • 10 Ways to Prepare Your Home for Overnight Guests
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    10 Ways to Prepare Your Home for Overnight Guests

    ByMary Crozier May 10, 2022May 11, 2022

    We love when guests come to visit! After a long journey, I know I want to unpack and settle into a lovely environment. Since we have had many guests recently, here are 10 ways to prepare your home for overnight guests. 1. A Comfortable Bed Perhaps the thing I miss most when I travel is…

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  • Saturday Meanderings
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    Saturday Meanderings

    ByMary Crozier March 11, 2022April 19, 2022

    Every time I write a Saturday Meanderings I cannot believe another week has flown by! As I am composing this I am sitting in the waiting room at Superior Court of Arizona, recently summoned for Grand Jury duty. I have never done this before and it will be interesting to see if I am part…

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  • Saturday Meanderings
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    Saturday Meanderings

    ByMary Crozier January 15, 2022January 15, 2022

    When I google-searched holidays in January, I certainly found more than I needed. Today, January 15th is everything from National Strawberry Ice Cream Day to National Pothole Day. Who the heck makes these decisions? Anyway, I didn’t realize it is a real holiday weekend with Martin Luther King Day on Monday. As you read Saturday…

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  • Onward to 2022!
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    Onward to 2022!

    ByMary Crozier January 4, 2022January 4, 2022

    Do you treat the new year as a time to start fresh? Are new resolutions made? For me, I like to think of it as a time of assessment and evaluation. Looking back on the previous year, I note the highlights and the low points~what went well, and what things I’d like to change. And…

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  • Christmas Catch-Up
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    Christmas Catch-Up

    ByMary Crozier December 24, 2021December 24, 2021

    I am so excited to be back at writing my blog again. We finally took my husband’s very belated big birthday trip to St. Thomas last week. This whole pandemic thing truly makes everything so much more complicated. The trip originally started as a river boat cruise down the Rhine River to see the European…

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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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