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    Saturday Meanderings

    ByMary Crozier May 17, 2024May 17, 2024

    Happy Saturday from the White Mountains of Arizona! It’s been a few months since we have visited our cabin and no surprise to find cobwebs, lots of yard debris and a tankless water heater that is providing cold water only. Home ownership~a blessing and a curse. This is Finn’s first trip here and he is…

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  • February is the Perfect time to Clean your Upholstery
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    February is the Perfect time to Clean your Upholstery

    ByMary Crozier February 5, 2024February 5, 2024

    Cleaning your upholstery is a perfect indoor project, especially during winter weather. Even though cleaning upholstery is not on my small or big project list this year, it is out of pure embarrassment that forces me to tackle this project. We are talking seriously grubby chairs. A wet, cold and rainy day in February seems…

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  • Cleaning and Caring for Roman Shades
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    Cleaning and Caring for Roman Shades

    ByMary Crozier November 15, 2022April 17, 2023

    With the holidays coming and the expectation of house guests, I am trying to spiff up our home with some additional cleaning tasks. In our kitchen, we have a corner of windows that overlooks the pool and the backyard. Twenty years ago, I had someone make Roman shades on each window. It dawned on me…

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  • The Back Terrace Project is Complete
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    The Back Terrace Project is Complete

    ByMary Crozier June 6, 2022June 6, 2022

    House Projects Back in March, during the lockdown, we created a list of home projects to tackle. As I was washing all the windows in the house, my husband started working on the back terrace. Like most projects, the work on the back terrace morphed into something bigger…..yet better. To see that post of lockdown…

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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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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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