WASHINGTON COUNTY, Vt. (WCAX) - Ten-year-old Rosie Bean is a happy kid. When she’s not playing soccer or basketball, this fifth grader focuses on sharing one very important message.

“Any day can be a happy, good day,” Rosie said with a smile.

Plastered on T-shirts, hats, mugs and more, Happy Good Day started out as an unsanctioned art project that went awry.

“There was like, a whole art project on our living room carpet,” recalled Rosie’s mom, Kate.

“I was going to paint a canvas that said ‘Happy Thanksgiving,’ but I didn’t know how to spell Thanksgiving at the time,” explained Rosie.

She’s got the spelling all ironed out now, but Thanksgiving was an admittedly big word for the then-8-year-old. So, she went with what she knew, and painted “Happy Good Day!” instead.

Kate loved the c

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