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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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03-20-2006, 11:03 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
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Journaling? How much is too much?
I still think of journaling as what my mom did on the backs of photos in the early 80's.
"Christina, age 3, Rutt family Easter egg hunt at Carol's house"
Basic who, what, where, when, why? So how much is too much and if you journal too much, does it become more journal and less scrapbook?
The reason I ask is that I'm still pecking at my Atlantic City pages. (Hopefully, I'll settle down and finish one layout rather than starting a new one each time I sit down to finish the first. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]) I have my title (printed on acetate that I'll be turning into a big sticker), some embellishments (vintage mini postcards), and now a bit of journaling that got wordier than I'd intended. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] Typical. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] I'm wondering if it's going to look like I ate paper and a typewriter and puked in the scrapbook. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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03-20-2006, 11:11 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Las Vegas
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
<font color="red"> IMO i think that alot of Journaling is a great thing, because is 50 years they are going to be able to get the full grasp. Scrapbooking is all about preserving memories, and you want to Journal while those memories are fress so that every generation will know exactly how much you lost at the slots ( lol im just playing, i live in vegas so gambling is all around me) I dont think it will look bad at all. I wish i had more on the back of my old pix that the day and who was in it or anything at all. Most of my pictures have nothing on the back.</font>
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03-20-2006, 11:26 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
Yep, what Amber said! Think of your scrapbook as a STORY book...it is the story of your life. Do you want it to be all pictures and no words??? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img] I have some pages that are mostly journaling, telling the story, then I try to do the basic who, what, when, where, why, how by hand next to the photo.
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03-20-2006, 11:46 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
Welp...I think I might have gotten the knack of this thing now that I know there's never too much. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
I just have to print it out to add it and my LO will be nearly complete! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img]
You won't be able to read it if I take pictures of the LO, so here's what it'll say on these pages:
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/4...6108BZsmLNy3Zq
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I was 7 ½ months pregnant and I lost my mind one morning. Tuesday, June 4th to be exact. I woke up feeling trapped. Everyone was telling me that having a baby would change my life and it would never be mine again and I got scared. I wanted to do something spontaneous, impulsive, even a little crazy. So I woke Daddy up, packed a bag, and told him he could come with me or I’d call him when I got there. Ten minutes later, his bag was packed and we were on the road for our overnight trip. If only we’d known at the beginning just how long that trip would be…
footprints: as we walked along the beach at sunrise, we looked back the way we’d come and noted that though there were only two sets of footprints, three of us had come down the beach. We realized that was the last time the three of us would go for a walk and leave only two sets of footprints in the sand. We became parents at that moment. We took this photo to remind ourselves of that and the first lesson we would teach you in this life – the most important lesson you’d ever learn: As you walk upon this earth, take only pictures and leave only footprints.
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03-20-2006, 11:52 PM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 177
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
Oh that's beautiful! I'm sniffling and have goosebumps!
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03-20-2006, 11:53 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Las Vegas
Posts: 285
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
<font color="red"> that is so sweet. like touched my soul sweet. i hope the trip helped. We arent trying to make any babies right now, but someday we will have kids, and i hope they will have memories like that. im glad you decided to tell the whole thing, instead of paraphrase, because your little one will love reading that </font> [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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03-21-2006, 12:19 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
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Oh that's beautiful! I'm sniffling and have goosebumps!
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[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/yeahthat.gif[/img] What a precious legacy you are leaving!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img]
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03-21-2006, 12:26 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Michigan
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
Now that's what journaling is all about. Those precious moments that will never happen again.....
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03-21-2006, 01:43 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
That is absolutely beautiful Chrissi - perfect. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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03-21-2006, 07:14 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 239
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
I agree with all of the above. How perfect!
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03-21-2006, 07:29 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Niagara Falls
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
Chrissi! That was BEAUTIFUL!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] See...I can't come up with anything that special, which is why I don't journal. Maybe when I have kids, I'll be better at it???
Great job!
Jennifer
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03-21-2006, 09:22 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
That was so sweet. Wish I could write like that. Sniff...
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03-21-2006, 09:52 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: SW MO
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
Absolutely perfect!:sniff:
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03-21-2006, 12:37 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: WI
Posts: 17,126
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
Awesome!!! It's beautiful Chrissi!
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03-21-2006, 04:02 PM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Long Island, NY
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Re: Journaling? How much is too much?
Perfect!
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