I'm painting a cartoonish version of an outer space room for my son. I just finished putting the second coat of Behr Space Hero Blue on his ceiling a few minutes ago. :) Here's a Buzz Lightyear room that I'm using as inspiration: Buzz Lightyear I'm painting the Space Hero Blue on the ceiling, Star Command Blue on the walls above a stripe of Orange Blast, Sonic Boom below the stripe, and Code red for the base boards and door trim. I'm not yet sure what color I'm using for the stars. The color suggested by Disney doesn't seem enough of a contrast with the ceiling to me, so we might go with a paler blue or a pale yellow.

I think all dark walls would be awesome! In fact DS1 was helping pick a shade of deep blue for a decorating project and he went directly to a SW chip that I had called Sea Serpent and and called it the color of outer space. The other color that he liked was BM Polo Blue (the one we're going w/) which is a deep navy, almost black color. It will be on the top quarter of our DR walls and ceiling. I've never really gone for the whole accent wall. A deep blue almost black w/ white trim in a light filled room would look killer! This is also coming from a person who does not mind painting though. Deep colors take lots of coats if you don't use a tinted primer and vice verse if you decide to take it lighter later. Love Spitfires idea about the room being a space ship looking out into space! DS1 & DS2 have a different themed room of transportation but they do have tin planes, helicopters and a zepplin hanging fromn the ceiling. These pics are old and I've transitioned it into a big boy bedroom now (they are 3 & 6) but the planes are still on the ceiling. Proper planning is key to being able to transition it through his growing and changing tatses over the yrs. One cool idea that DS1 came up w/ last yr. after we made Halloween costumes was to take a leftover box, cut off 2 flaps opposite each other and paint it grey. He put spaceship markings on it in marker and glued leftover Wawa hot dish cups on the bottom outside of the box. They got painted grey too. These were the ships boosters. We crumpled up orange and red tissue paper and stuffed inside the cups to look like flames shooting out. We tacked it onto the ceiling. The 2 box top flaps that we left on were the wings. Now they're into antique British sports cars and the Beatles (every Sunday they listen to Lunch w/ the Beatles on the radio). They want British and American flags over their beds and a deep navy blue ceiling becuase they still love all things sky related. I'm sure that I'll have blue paint leftover from the DR so I bet they get their wish.

I have called ancestry many times and most of the time, its a reasonable wait and they are always helpful. My brick wall goes back to a John Boston - 1737-1810. He was a Major in the Revolutionary War in the Onslow Militia in NC. I was trying to make a connection to the infamous Henry Boston from the Eastern Shore of MD/VA in the 1640's. There is a hugh book written on his family and descendants. I even tracked one of them down and my husband and he did Y chromosome tests. No connection at all! And there is no connection to the other Boston lines on the Surname Projects done through Familytree DNA. We found a 4th cousin who goes back to the son of John, named James, as my husband does, and he agreed to be tested so we could determine if the line from there is solid and it is. Their results were a very good match. Turns out that there are a number of men with the surname of Burns, Byrne and Byrnes that are closer matches than any Bostons. And there are a couple with the surname of O'Neill and Reed or Reid that are even closer. All of these lines can be traced back to an area of Ireland called Leinster. Well, that's a surprise cause we thought the ancestors came from England or Scotland! So somewhere back either at John's generation or further back, we think a Boston male took in children sired by a man with one of those surnames. That wasn't uncommon at the time since women often lost husband's and men would marry women with children already. The issue here is that they took the Boston name and so now husband's family are Boston by name but not by blood - or at least not by any Boston line that has been documented. Those lines that have been are close to the area where John was, certainly within the realm of possibility for the scenario I proposed. We know that the line is good from James down as we have autosomal testing for cousins and they show up throughout the family tree. But through all this searching, I have located several descendants from the children of James 1767-1837. I have also found hand written documents where James wrote about each of his children, including hubs GGGF, who was given up at 10 days old to another family to raise (Kings) since his mother died. James wrote so lovingly about his wife and children. It was like my meeting him in person. I have so many questions I would love to ask him!

Don, I understand your point about the land line. We have had a land line with the same phone # for 45 years, but lately it has been a battle to find a phone company that will support it. They want us to sign up for the "latest" technology. Our land line connects directly into the telephone wire, no towers, no cable and no electronics. We have a very old phone that can handle the direct connection. We live in earthquake country and that old phone never let us down. When we had our big quake , and everything went to h@ll, it worked and neighbors stood in line to use our old phone, Having said that, I'm all for checking out the new technologies. Thanks for the links.