A Spring Adventure: Wilderness, Flowers, and the Force (with Cam and Luke) PTR Updated 5/22 - Page 10 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
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!
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Oooooohhh. Aaaaaahhh. That is bee-yoo-tee-ful!! I love it! You could not have picked a more perfect paint color. ( I really LOVED the princess version, too. Thank you for sharing those pics). The Matthews really know how to inspire. All your finished scrapbook pages are so detailed and wonderful ( and always done in such a timely manner). I think, "yes, I can so get started!" After seeing these pics of the bathroom redo, I'm feeling more motivated to get some house projects done, too! It all looks so easy peasy when you do it.
It looks wonderful! I'm seriously jealous. The wall color you chose is so warm and the new tile is beautiful. I especially like all the matching bronze touches. The standing picture frames are just perfect. Luke did an amazing job getting all this done.
Luke was worried that I'd like the bronze so much I'd want it all over the house. But I like that it makes this bathroom unique. While Luke was working on the bathroom, I was cleaning and straightening my scrapbook room. I had put those two picture frames on a bookcase when I brought them home from school. When I found them cleaning, I was so excited because it puts a bit of Stefanie and Disney back in that bathroom.
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Originally Posted by bonphil
Love the new look in Stefanie's bathroom! I wish my DH was as handy as Luke.
I've always been thankful that Luke can do lots around the house and that he even enjoys it most of the time.
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Aww...thanks for thinking of me! We are hoping to return to DW in October for DH's conference he usually attends, however, he recently lost his job & is currently consulting, so we don't know what will happen.
Love the bathroom redo! Luke did a great job! Feel free to send him over here...I'm sure I have a few projects I can give him to do!
I'm so glad your DH is consulting as I remember your posting that he had lost his job. Maybe I should start hiring Luke to do projects.
Excellent job Luke. DW uses the same logic pattern as you. She finds something she likes and then designs around it.
That logic can work quite well.
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Wow, the bathroom looks awesome!
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Originally Posted by ilovedisney247
Love the new bathroom! I can't wait to see you guys!
While Luke and I walked this afternoon in nice 70 degree weather, I mentioned that you were now at AK and Everest. And then I missed you! So we can't wait to see you, too!
As I said on FB before - I the Giraffe bathroom!!!!
I knew a fellow giraffe lover would like it.
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Wow, the bathroom is AMAZING! I'm in love! I adore everything animal print, so it is right up my alley. You guys did an excellent job.
I'm especially fond of giraffe and zebra prints.
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Originally Posted by shazza
The new bathroom decor is beautiful. Especially like the lamp fixture and new faucet.
Luke was very proud of himself for locating the perfect lamp. The best thing about the faucet was how easy it was to put in, which made Luke very happy.
The bathroom transformation is just beautiful! Luke did a great job on that project
I was very pleased with everything he did.
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Originally Posted by mouseketeer1
Oooooohhh. Aaaaaahhh. That is bee-yoo-tee-ful!! I love it! You could not have picked a more perfect paint color. ( I really LOVED the princess version, too. Thank you for sharing those pics). The Matthews really know how to inspire. All your finished scrapbook pages are so detailed and wonderful ( and always done in such a timely manner). I think, "yes, I can so get started!" After seeing these pics of the bathroom redo, I'm feeling more motivated to get some house projects done, too! It all looks so easy peasy when you do it.
You are too sweet! For me, it was easy because Luke did about 80% of the work on his own. But the scrapbook pages are all my own.
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Originally Posted by mojjo
Bathroom looks great!!! It does provide a certain inspiration to those of us stalled in our current projects.
Glad to help inspire! We've got several more projects in the works, but we have to wait for the money to be there.
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the Giraffe bathroom!!!! 
I love it! You could not have picked a more perfect paint color. ( I really LOVED the princess version, too. Thank you for sharing those pics). 
The Matthews really know how to inspire. All your finished scrapbook pages are so detailed and wonderful ( and always done in such a timely manner). I think, "yes, I can so get started!" After seeing these pics of the bathroom redo, I'm feeling more motivated to get some house projects done, too! It all looks so easy peasy when you do it. 
The wall color you chose is so warm and the new tile is beautiful. I especially like all the matching bronze touches. The standing picture frames are just perfect. Luke did an amazing job getting all this done.
I've always been thankful that Luke can do lots around the house and that he even enjoys it most of the time. 
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