Beautiful Bets
Young Betty used to play, skate, and lead adventures in this place near her house.
Poppleton Park
The French word for this small, buttery french pastry means "cabbage." Hint: it sounds like something you wear on your feet.
Choux
This activity involves plunging a long string into a coffee can filled with hot wax.
making candles
For winter fun, check the temperature and humidity and apply the right wax. Strap on these wooden boards and step and glide to the finish.
cross country skiing
To achieve naturally colorful and shiny hair, Mez used to use this product.
henna
If you are making choclates for Christmas, and you want yours to look "Gourmez", i.e. with a shiny, flawless appearance, you need to do this to it.
temper it
This seasonal craft project produces an end product that is delicate and oblong shaped. Blow the gunk out of this object, decorate and showcase.
A Christmas stocking may hold many surprises, but it should ALWAYS contain this tasty treat made from tree sap.
maple sugar candy
Sugar plum faires, flowers and snowflakes dance their way into this Mez hoiday favorite.
Nutcracker
A pound cake is traditionally made from a pound each of flour, eggs, sugar and this ingredient.
butter
Papier-mâché, a balloon, pop it and stuff it with candy. Hang it from a tree and bludgeon with weapon of choice.
piñata
Organize tiles on a board to make words, preferably 5 or more letters.
scrabble
Don't overdress. One and only one item of clothing is needed to bake pancakes or can goods over a wood burning stove in your front yard.
an apron
If you are as serious as the Gourmez about liquor infused fruit cake, you use this tool to ensure total saturation?
syringe
When your candles are dipped, your tree is up, and the fruit cakes are in the mail, turn on the Vienna Boys Choir and gather some wood and greenery to create this festive holiday decoration for your table.
Yule log
The four little Bufords were so accustomed to delicous home cooked meals that they were appauled by a Christmas dinner that featured this meat with a side of mustard.
tongue
When a child is bored and getting into trouble, your first line of defense is to give him/her this (according to Mez).
a job
Giddy up! These cookies are a favorite of the Buford grandchildren.
cowboy cookies
Mez lives by example and offers advice sparingly, but she gives this sage advice to beginning sewers. Fill in the blank: A good sewer is a good __________.
ripper
Mez's spirit animal. This humble creature was one of the first to be tamed by humans.
goat