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Would you like to give a unique Christmas gift this year? You can give your child a gift of the heavens in their own bedroom with a personal planetarium from Stars So Bright. The kits are so accurate that you can personalize your gift by portraying the stars exactly as they appeared at the time of your child's birth. Or you can pick a special date and time such as midnight on Christmas Eve or 10:05 on your anniversary.
Or, you might want to give this as a romantic gift. We have found that people of all ages find these amazing. We have one in our living room, and when we have company over, sometimes we will turn off the lights, and people will gasp. They say that it seems like they are really sitting under the stars outside. The planetarium is fairly invisible when the lights are on, but when we turn the lights off - the stars seem to appear as if by magic, and they seem to actually twinkle and glow.
Rick (my husband) started up Stars So Bright about a year ago. He's been interested in astronomy since high school, and while he was at Cornell he sat in on some of Carl Sagan's lectures. While we lived in Denver, we'd sometimes go up into the mountains to go star-gazing or to see meteor shows. During this time, he figured out techniques for creating very realistic looking night skies on our ceilings using luminescent paints. When I got cancer, he created beautiful heavenly scenes in our bedroom and the living room. At night, I'd go to bed and feel like I was sleeping under the stars. It was incredibly peaceful and serene and helped me feel closer to God.
Rick also donated several planetariums to libraries in the Dallas area, and gave Star Seminars where he taught children how to find the constellations by using the planetariums. Several newspapers, including the Dallas Morning News, wrote very complimentary articles about these Star Seminars.
After Rick and I moved to Austin, he volunteered to put up a planetarium for one of our neighbors who home schools their children. He painted the boy's room first. The children loved it, and the girls insisted on camping out in their brothers' room that night. The next day, Rick painted their room. Not only did the children love it, but they were able to use the planetariums to learn about astronomy. Rick gave them a star chart so they could learn to identify constellations.
Since then, the children have gotten really into astronomy. The younger daughter asked for a telescope for Christmas and the older boy has been asking questions about galaxies. So not only did the planetarium enchant the children, it also helped interest them in science.
Our neighbors suggested Rick develop a kit for people who would like to create planetariums as gifts for their children, or even for themselves. So Rick came up with a kit that includes everything you need to create a planetarium, along with a star chart, educational DVD, and astronomers' flashlight. If you would like to learn more about this, you can check out the Stars So Bright link at: http://www.stars-so-bright.com/
There are videos on the site that show you the reactions of children and a teen-ager to Stars So Bright, plus excerpts from the DVDs that come with the kit. Enough of the high quality paint is provided so you can paint two 12x12 childrens' bedrooms plus a practice room, and it will take you approximately 3 hours to do a child's room. The luminescent paint Rick sells is one he custom orders, and is the highest quality and most realistic paint you can buy.
This is a really wonderful, enchanting gift, and Rick is so sure people will love it, he offers a 120% money back guarantee. So far, he's only had to make good on that once. Our neighbors who have the planetariums in their children's rooms have so far been our best testimonial - whenever they have company, the company sleeps in the boys' room as a guest room, and they always rave about how much they love sleeping under the stars. If they have children, they invariably end up buying a planetarium kit from us!
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