Anton’s Bedroom Ceiling Is the Best Part of Our Apartment

The glow in the dark stars and planets were my companion growing up. I got over my fear of darkness thanks to them and they sparked my imagination and curiosity! They are still hanging in my old room’s ceiling and I can’t bring myself to take them down.

I live in my childhood home. My sister’s bedroom has a ceiling full of glow in the dark stars that I still cannot bear to take these down. The room is now used as a guest room and our overnight guests are tickled by the surprise stargazing once they turn out the lights. Someday we will move and I’m not sure what we’ll do with these stars, but they still delight us almost two decades later!

My first night of sophomore year in college, I turned out the lights and said, “What the what?!?!” Honestly, for a second I thought the ceiling had disappeared and I was somehow, impossibly, looking up at the night’s sky. Since then, I’ve put up tiny stars in almost every bedroom I’ve lived in. Not just for me, but to (hopefully) give that same moment of magic to anyone who lived there after.

That is lovely. I too had these in the mid 90s in my bedroom. now when we go on holiday to visit my parents interstate it’s a bit of a full circle because now my 2 boys get to sleep in my old bedroom and look at the same stars on the ceiling, they love it.

Hey Jo,
You made me so nostalgic and just ordered the same pack for my sons. They share the same room so they both will appreciate sleeping under starry night. I used to have a similar ceiling back in the 90’s where it was super popular. Back then we didn’t have lot of star sizes. They were all medium and large sizes, so my mol got the glow-in-the-dark pen and she wold draw tiny dots all over my ceiling. It was so magical. Thank you for bringing back such warm memories.

In college three roommates and I filled the ceiling of our hallway with these stars. You could close the doors on either side to make it very dark and the ceiling was mesmerizing. We used to invite people to see the “star-way” at parties, which very obviously seemed like a move to anyone but the 4 of us. We just thought it was really cool! If it hadn’t lead to so many funny stories I would feel bad for how confusing this was for potential beaus.

I used to have these on my ceiling in my closet as a kid. It was a really tall ceiling. I would read in there, take naps, hide from the scary, noisy vacuum on chore weekends… oh, those were the days! Perhaps I should invest in some for my current closet? I wouldn’t mind hiding from chore days these days too, to be honest!

I put them on my four year old’s ceiling after Christmas this year and I can’t believe how much I enjoy them! It’s so magical to turn the lights off and see them – I thought I was the only adult left that felt this way! The teeny tiny ones do look like real stars!

I had glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling of my childhood bedroom, too! They’re actually still there, and comfort me every time I go home to visit :)

I had glow in the dark stars on my ceiling in HS and I would arrange the stars in the initials of my crush…my mom totally kept track about the ever-changing initials.

So cool! I had glow-in-the-dark stars above my bed during university times. Every time I wrote a test or handed in a paper (writing those was particularly hard for me), I got a new one: I would go to the toy store and pick out a small, medium, or large one, depending in how difficult the test or paper had been. Then I would stick it to the ceiling and marvel at a new star in my growing nightsky of academic achievements.

We have a new baby joining our family in a few weeks and this would be a perfect gift from him to the sibs to sweeten the introduction! Thank you!

I had these on my ceiling as a kid! They are the BEST! My mom, who is super into decor, helped me put them up as a kid and I thought she was the coolest! I left them up until I went to college. So fun!

I had forgotten about these; they dotted my childhood bedroom many moons ago! I’m not quite at the motherhood stage yet, but I imagine/hope that will come in the next five years of so. I’d love to surprise our future child with ceiling stars during the toddler years. Such fond memories brought back by this post!

I had these in my childhood bedroom, which was my parents’ bedroom before, and they had made the stars a representation of the real night sky – constellations and all!

these make me so nostalgic, they remind me of elementary school sleepovers

Joanna, I don’t know if you’ll see this, but I saw you mention below the cost of that fraudulent link from the holiday guides – I still can’t believe you covered costs for folks as a result! That was so kind. My friend once shared this link with me and I wanted to pass along in case it’s helpful in future. This app/website uses AI to determine whether something is legit on an e-commerce site and I’ve felt much more informed when (mostly during the pandemic) having to buy an item only available from a maybe sketchy seller.

https://www.fakespot.com/

My husband and I made some glow in the dark Halloween decorations when we were first married. And it was truly magic falling asleep to that every night. I love this so much! How long did it take to get that all up there??

How lovely! You should check out the moon torch projector for your son. My little one loves it! https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00U7RRZXG?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_image!

I ordered similar for a friends child’s 5th birthday and they were a hit! Will for sure be on my go to gift list from now on.

duckduckgo’ing: glow in the dark paint for diy galaxy splatter!

We first read one of the Zen Panda books last autumn when I was looking for Halloween books from the library! It was a beautiful twist on a more classic “ghost” story for kids. I didn’t know there were others!

Awww!! I had these exact stickers on my ceiling when I was a teenager. I still remember buying them at the planetarium.

I always wanted these as a kid, and I was never allowed to have them. We moved a lots so I was never allowed to put anything on the walls (or ceilings). Can’t wait to stick some on my daughter’s ceiling. Life is too short to worry about something that can be fixed with a little bit of paint one day.

My kids had these on their ceilings and loved them. They are young adults now and the stars have fallen off over the years, leaving only lumps of the hardened sticky-tack on the ceiling. When my oldest child recently moved out, I gave the room a much-needed freshening up … I will admit there was some swearing as I tried to scrape the now-cement-like adhesive off the ceiling! I did a terrible job and ended up having to sand, patch, prime and re-paint the ceiling! Still worth it though (now that I’m done lol!).