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  • Setting the Christmas Dinner Table
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    Setting the Christmas Dinner Table

    ByMary Crozier December 22, 2022December 18, 2024

    For some reason it never occurred to me to set a dinner table days before an event. While visiting my friend, I noticed her Thanksgiving table all set a week before turkey day. It was a light bulb moment for me. I typically (and with stress) set the table on the same day. Ever since…

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  • 8 Ways to Spruce up Your Home’s Front Entrance
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    8 Ways to Spruce up Your Home’s Front Entrance

    ByMary Crozier May 3, 2022May 4, 2022

    With the warmer weather of Spring, here are eight easy ways to spruce up the front entrance to your home. It doesn’t take much to freshen up and create a more welcoming space. Is your entry pleasant? Appealing to the eye? Easy to find? Does your entrance say welcome to my home? Is it a…

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  • Pool House Renovation Reveal
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    Pool House Renovation Reveal

    ByMary Crozier April 19, 2022May 10, 2023

    Thanks for joining me today to see the pool house renovation! If you missed yesterday’s post with Before and During photos, you can see it here. We are so fortunate that this re-do went rather smoothly, in light of today’s supply chain issues and exorbitant costs. Having a reliable contractor/handyman is a rare gift and…

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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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  • 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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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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