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Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.

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We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.

There are other changes as well.

Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:

We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.

It's time to move on and move forward.

PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.

But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.

So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.

And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.

That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!

If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.

So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!

Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!

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Posted 09-11-2009 at 08:04 AM by Sandra Bostwick
Updated 09-12-2009 at 12:04 AM by Sandra Bostwick

We are almost ready to move on to our next theme area. Before we leave this first area, though, let's do a little dreaming.

Take a good look at your theme area and think about any improvements that might require a shopping trip, take a little work, or could make a nice future project. Write your ideas down.

Walt Disney said I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.

Everything Disney constantly grows and changes. Imagineers never stop asking how could a theme be improved. Many of the plans never get started. Some won't be attempted for years.

A dream is just a wish your heart makes, so there is no pressure to follow through here.

Write your dream list here.

Here is my dream list for my first theme area.

1: two new white doors.
2: a new paint job on walls.
3 a new coat of paint on my furniture.
4: some sort of small, unique hanging light accent for one corner.
5: possibly some sort of mirror or framed mirror accents for the walls.

Have a great day!

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	1. new floor treatment. 2. finish trimwork. 3. new french doors. 4. new 20 gallon+ fishtank. 5. pictures and artwork for the walls. See why I get overwhelmed? I know you said imagineering, not have to complete it all by noon tomorrow, LOL. 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 09-11-2009 at 07:51 PM by GoofEme

	OK, Jamie, I can see why you might get overwhelmed! Might I suggest that you either finish the trimwork or spend time looking for artwork for walls first? Those items sound lik something you could accomplish rather quickly. 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 09-12-2009 at 08:38 AM by Sandra Bostwick

1. new nightstand
2. replace entertainment center with armoire
3. upgrade to a nicer crown molding
4. take down old wallpaper and paint
5. replace carpet
6. replace comforter with a new quilt

I know I've mentioned most of these already. We have a super-long to-do list for the house (It was mainly circa-1975 when we bought it) and we can only do a few little things at a time. Quilt should be purchased at Thanksgiving, new nightstand maybe at Christmas or a few weeks into the new year. The others are not that important at this point so they can be postponed in favor of other projects in the house that are a higher priority.

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Posted 09-15-2009 at 05:55 PM by christiejay christiejay is offline

	1. New locks for the house 2. New mini-blinds for all the windows (GOT THESE DONE) 3. new shower curtains (GOT THESE DONE) 4. bathroom decor 5. cabinets for my kitchen 6. closet type thing for my room. yep I too have a LONG to do list. only now I am the honey doing it all as I got rid of wasted space. :-) 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 09-16-2009 at 12:29 AM by MaryEL8775 Updated 09-18-2009 at 10:44 PM by MaryEL8775 (updating! lol)

	1. more shelves in the kids room 2. dying to put pictures up in the bedroom 3. changes the faucets in kitchen and bathroom my list is not that bad but it still needs to be done sooner then later . 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 09-20-2009 at 09:56 PM by disney

These are great lists, guys!

I'm having trouble finding new posts with the way these blogs are organized, but I think I figured out a way to keep current. If you click Blogs next to PassPorter message boards and forums at the top of the page, you can see a whole bunch of the most recent comments.

Thanks for following with me! I keep thinking I'm The Lone Blogger, then I discover lost comments from a whole bunch of Tontos.

THANK YOU!

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Posted 09-20-2009 at 10:10 PM by Sandra Bostwick Sandra Bostwick is offline