Waking up to Star Wars

Pam Ronnei of Milwaukee, Wis., painted this "Star Wars" mural in her bedroom. Improvising from several grid-and-pictorial maps found online and in the front covers of "Star Wars" paperbacks, she and friend Rita Skamser-O'Neil painted the wall blue-black, and then added a white galaxy and charted out more than 100 "Star Wars" planets.

Pam and Rita labeled each planet and painted over it with glow-in-the-dark paint. They then flecked the wall with star-spots, went to sleep, and woke up to survey their project, which took took about 15 hours (not including planning).

Recently, the "Star Wars" crafters also painted an oil landscape of Bespin's Cloud City for a friend's wedding present.