Hi Springie, If you get sick of teaching, this might be an idea for you...doing murals on kids bedroom walls. What made me think of it is that I'm designing a mural for one of the walls in my babies bedroom. My DH looked scared when I told him that Want to do some hand painted pics on her walls. he thought I'd be doing the whole Gatch thing, and that I would start doing the rest of the house. Well I plan to put the Swan in the mural, but as a part of a fairy garden I feel would look good... I thought of you Springie when I saw some of these... Do you think I might be onto something...if I lived close I'd be suggesting a joint venture... I couldn't find and Gatch or BOTP kids room murals, so there is a whole market out there waiting for us...

Theres one with bugs that made me think of Jinpei's bed room. and the Army walls would be Ken or Ryus...Joe would have race cars... here are some more... There was a web site that had amazing rooms but it would let me copy the pics so here is the link at least. http://www.muralsbymorgan.com/kids-room-wall-murals.php

Originally posted by Ebonyswanne Theres one with bugs that made me think of Jinpei's bed room. and the Army walls would be Ken or Ryus...Joe would have race cars... here are some more... There was a web site that had amazing rooms but it would let me copy the pics so here is the link at least.

I think Ryu's might have something to do with the ocean or boats. Army for Ken .... maybe ...... I think more flying.....

Very cool! You know I thought about doing that to my kids' rooms...My son loves ocean creatures and reptiles...and my daughter loves everything...I definitely want to do an ocean theme for my son sometime...if I do...I'll take a piccie and post!

Joe's would be a racetrack...and Jun's...hmmm...a rock concert? A stage? A disco? LOL

CD I only said the army one because of the helicopter... I was in her bedroom looking at the blank walls and I thought...it would sooo much fun to do. So I'm starting with and apple tree over the door...

Yes I noticed the Helicopter .... and he might have one. Have you seen those "race car" beds? Could you imagine one of those in Joe's room? and a jet bed in Ken's?

Yeah!!! One of my friends kids has one, and when I see it I think of the Condor... Wouldn't it be funny if he still had his race car bed in the trailer and he covers it up because he knows it's really a kids bed but he loves it from his childhood...

Originally posted by Ebonyswanne Yeah!!! One of my friends kids has one, and when I see it I think of the Condor... Wouldn't it be funny if he still had his race car bed in the trailer and he covers it up because he knows it's really a kids bed but he loves it from his childhood...

Awww! Then we would know how much of a sentimental softie the Condor really is.

Yeah he thinks it will affect his cool image if anyone found out he still he slept in it...ROTFL

I guess that is why he never invited the team over to the trailer.

Originally posted by Ebonyswanne Yeah!!! One of my friends kids has one, and when I see it I think of the Condor... Wouldn't it be funny if he still had his race car bed in the trailer and he covers it up because he knows it's really a kids bed but he loves it from his childhood...

A kid bed? That won't be very comfortable for he and his partner. Oh, wait, maybe that's why he never invited someone in over the trailer.....

Those look great, Ebony! FWIW, a few of the Moms on my Moms' Board have done those. Some of them get the picture they want on an overhead film, and then project it onto the wall, then color between the lines. Am I making sense?

Yeah I do...when I studied visual merchandising TJ thats how we enlarged our drawings for backdrops to displays. I could do that but I don't have an overhead projector, or access to one. So I'll do a grid and work from that... I have decided to do butterflies and bee's and fairies in a garden, with a tree that has pink flowers on one wall. In the tree I'm going to put the SNT sitting on branches...

THat sounds great Ebony. Is is possible to go to your local library and borrow" a overhead projector. Or, do you know any teachers really well, who might be willing to 'borrow' the Overhead projector from school one weekend.

Ooh.... the KNT on a branch... can you come do MY room, Ebony????

I don't really need on to do the drawings, I'll just scale them like I normally do if I want to enlarge a picture. It's not that hard to do really, I just have to get a feel for how big I want it to be to get my proportions right....I'm just planing out the walls now.

Originally posted by Ebonyswanne I don't really need on to do the drawings, I'll just scale them like I normally do if I want to enlarge a picture. It's not that hard to do really, I just have to get a feel for how big I want it to be to get my proportions right....I'm just planing out the walls now.

I do hope you plan on taking pictures of the great work in progress and posting them.

I will, I am starting to draw them on the walls tomorrow. The birdies won't be easy to do, but I'll take a bit more time with them

Just make sure that Ken and Jun are reeeeeeelly cozy!!!!!