As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
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.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
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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My new craft room
I'm still setting up my craft room in our new-to-us snowbird house. DH got a hangar, so I insisted on a craft room; seems a fair trade to me.
I still need to get new furniture for the wall space for storage. DH doesn't like the Michael's stuff, so I think I can get him to spring for Ikea shelving for the walls.
I took my very favorite Disney park photos and had them made into wrapped canvas pictures, 11x14 and 16x20. CVS just happened to have them on sale for half price! So the big ones were $22.50 and the smaller ones were $14.99--amazing prices!
The room is fairly big, so the pictures look smaller when hung. DH painted the walls the pale peach I chose. He'll paint the desk white for me, and it has an upper part I'll get painted and added eventually....but then I'll have to rehang the photos! I feel like I need to add a border or something near the ceiling, looks a little bare.
Anyway, here are some pics, really more of the photos than the room. DH took the one of Spaceship Earth, but all the rest are my own work:
Another angle:
The wall color looks a little off on this one--all castle photos on this wall:
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Oh Ginger - your room is gorgeous!
What beautiful photos you have to remind you of your magic place.
I hope you enjoy many happy crafting hours there...
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Oh Ginger - your room is gorgeous!
What beautiful photos you have to remind you of your magic place.
I hope you enjoy many happy crafting hours there...
Wow! What a room, I have half a room. Needed some room for my granddaughter, so I don't mind. If I had your room I could make some great stuff. Enjoy your room!
Seeing your pictures gave me a shot of Disney Magic this AM, Ginger. I recognize the Tomorrowland photo from one of your posts. The pictures are really top notch!
As far as a border etc....I agree, there is something missing. I'm thinking the taller desk shelving will break it up a little. Right now everything in the room is the same height, and you need something to break it up. Another thing that could work is a much larger print for one wall that provides the illusion of a window. Are there windows on the other walls?
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Seeing your pictures gave me a shot of Disney Magic this AM, Ginger. I recognize the Tomorrowland photo from one of your posts. The pictures are really top notch!
As far as a border etc....I agree, there is something missing. I'm thinking the taller desk shelving will break it up a little. Right now everything in the room is the same height, and you need something to break it up. Another thing that could work is a much larger print for one wall that provides the illusion of a window. Are there windows on the other walls?
Thanks, Kim!
Yes, the opposite wall is mostly windows and a french door. A much bigger print somewhere does sound like a great idea!
The wall opposite the desk has the Walt Disney statue print, but will eventually have a tallish bookcase with barn doors to close off half at a time...whenever DH gets around to building it.
I also have a 16x20 of a closeup of Spaceship Earth, plus an 11x14 of DLR's small world in Christmas lights--you'll recognize that one!--that I haven't yet hung. They're likely to go in the small half-bath off that room.
Thanks for remembering, Ginger. We didn't start the vision therapy. The therapy office had a few too many red flags for us, like misleading info about why services aren't covered by insurance. It was too much $ ($4500) to commit to on a chance that it might help. Families who's kid is struggling with reading are desperate, and I saw signs that they were taking advantage of that desperation. We spent $400 on the evaluation they did, and got some decent info from that, and that's all we've done. I've worked on some retained reflexes with him (occupational therapy stuff), that may have helped. He also got prism glasses for reading, and those have helped him too.
He's still a struggling reader, but is showing improvement. He won't do well on the standardized testing required this summer (Oregon requires testing starting in 3rd grade for homeschoolers) but I think he'll do well enough to keep homeschooling him. He's doing fine in math, terrible in writing, terrible in reading, and good in other stuff. He's doing lego robotics with my dad, which he loves. He spends a ton of time building with lego, drawing, and fantasy play. He's nice to other kids (something that didn't used to be the case as much) and he's physically fit. He's just a total darling, and the reading and writing has just really been a struggle. I'm in a better place with it than I have been in the past.
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