Your designs are not bad at all - I think I'd like to stick with my color scheme however. Thanks for the ideas - they are all great actually. If you'd like to try something a bit closer to what we've got listed, we would love to see it.
These are good. Of the three, I like #34 the best. However I think the consensus so far is keeping with the idea of having a space needle in the text. Check out the entry that is ranked # 2 right now for an example.