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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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I have been wanting to purchase a cricut for a while. I have had some issues that have not scrapbooked in several years. I have watched the informercials and done a little reading on this board. I teach and do art projects at home with my children and can see where it would be helpful. I would like to know from users: is it worth the money, how many cartridges do you have, is the mat with the paper sticky (i'm wondering how that will effect the paper) and what are some of the pros and cons? Thanks in advance for you help. Y'all get my creative juices flowing.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the Cricut. It can cut anything. The sticky mats can be pretty sticky when you first open them, and it's sort of recommended that you sort of play patty-cake with your new mats to make them somewhat less sticky so they don't tear your paper the first time through.
All the machines come with at least 1 cartridge that is a font. Other carts that are really helpful (besides the Disney ones of course) are the Paper Dolls one. Even if you don't do a lot of dolls, they have a really wide variety of companion cuts that cover everything from animals to holidays. You can look at the handbooks for all the cartridges on the Cricut.com site under Information and then Cricut Library.
There is 3rd party software that you can use with your cricut machine that will allow you to cut out other images that are not on cartridges. Of course to use it you will have to have your cricut attached to the computer with a USB A/B cable. The 2 software titles are Sure Cuts A Lot and Make the Cut. I've used both and they both have their good points. But in both cases, they really expand what I'm able to do with my cricut. At the very minimum it allows me to cut using any True Type font on my computer. This is VERY helpful especially when you consider how many free fonts there are out there and that many of them are ding-bat fonts that not letters but shapes.
So if you're like me and don't think you do a very good job cutting stuff out or just don't like to, this is a really great machine.
I LOVE my Cricut!
I've used it for projects with Girl Scouts and at DD's school as much as scrapbooking. And DD uses it, too. It's easy -- she mastered it early on.
What I love about it: I can make my headlines the size I want. And whatever color I want, or out of specialty paper. I don't have to buy any more alphabet stickers (no more running out of e's and having tons of leftover m's and t's)
What I don't like: It's easy to spend a lot of money on cartridges -- they can be addictive. It's one more thing to take to crops, and can be heavy and bulky when added to the other "stuff" I haul.
I have the basic Cricut. I've rarely if ever wished I could cut things bigger than that machine will do. But I have often wished I could cut letters smaller than 1". So the Expression is more versatile that way -- but I can't justify buying another machine. If I were to shop now, I'd look at the "Cricut Create" model.
Yes, the mats are sticky. They wouldn't work otherwise. I just don't press the paper down as hard when they're new. I've never had a mat ruin a cut because it was too sticky (the lifting tools help a lot). Older less sticky mats are great for vellum. The mat that came with my machine was thinner than the replacements you can buy and it bent pretty easily. I'd suggest buying several mats when they're on sale.
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