Happy Looks Good on You
With every change of season comes change in decor, clothes, movies, colors, and most especially: food. Since we're all about Fall around here lately I wanted to share the perfect cookie to help your taste buds transition from Summer to Fall. I would classify Pumpkin Orange Cookies … [Read more...]
Of owls and pigs you have to be wary, and particularly in the terrain of design where they can spell either whimsical taste or unmitigated disaster. On your hunt for such wildlife, be armed with a good can of spray paint. When we encountered these beauties in the wild that is goodwill, … [Read more...]
Blackout Bliss, so named because we first ate it during the great snow storm blackout of 2012, should only be attempted if you are fully prepared to consume all of it... immediately. Not because it doesn't keep wonderfully (because it does) but because by eating one bite you irrevocably surrender … [Read more...]
I got this recipe from my mom who, I think, cut it out of a newspaper a long time ago. I can't take credit for it, but I can make sure the world doesn't keep living in darkness without it. If your eyes are now rolling to the tune of "ANOTHER chocolate chip cookie recipe," I don't blame you, but … [Read more...]
My dear friend Megan and I live approximately 598.86 miles apart and have existed this way for 270 days... but who's counting? Fortunately I have it on good authority (and by that I mean an unofficial site on the world wide web) that April 27 is National Write An Old Friend (WAOF) Day. Finally, … [Read more...]
I flatter myself that someone would pay $1 million for this little beauty, but $1 million is exactly what it would take for me to part with it! Days and days of blood, sweat, and tears went into the making of this lamp! Ok, none of those bodily dramatizations were involved in the … [Read more...]
I got this idea from a classy group affectionately known as "The Billing Ladies,"... you know who you are. Start with piles of three or four different sizes of hearts cut out of valentine paper. Make sure you have an even number of each size. If you have a Cri-cut machine this part is a snap. … [Read more...]
The cream puff recipe that has been in my mom's recipe box since before I can remember is so well worn that it falls open on the counter like a snowflake. The slanted handwriting is so faded and the paper so yellowed that they are fast approaching the same shade. I first discovered it in high … [Read more...]
Hello! We're Alison and Megan and we're so glad you stopped by Happy Looks Good On You. Against the odds we became best friends and we have ridiculous amounts of fun together. We love to create and this blog is all about things that make us happy, because we could all use a little more happy in our lives, right? So stick around for awhile as we chat about DIY projects, parties, Disneyland, food, decorating, music and all things fun & fabulous.
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the painted piano
