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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Looking for ideas on how you store your pin collection.
Currently, I have them pinned to pages in a scrap book that I bought on super clearance, but that's not working as the pin plus the rubber backing means the book will not close - and that's with doing every other page with pins.
I was thinking of a three ring binder, with some foam pieces and those plastic page protection sheets might work. Then decorate the binder.
Anyway, how do you store your pins and make it all work?
Let me find a link to how I have ours stored, will post shortly!
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Jennifer / Eeyore is my favorite!! OMG - He's sooooo grown up!!!! And an EAGLE SCOUT!! I can still remember my cute little Tiger Cub! 2016 Reading Goal - 75 books
I have some 12"x12" shadow box type frames that I've removed the glass from & glued cork on to the back of. I got a package of 4 12"x12" cork tiles & glued 2 of the tiles together (one on top of the other) & then when the glue was dry trimmed them a little & glued them on to the inside of the back (the part that goes against the picture or mat when you put the back in place) of the frame & waited for the glue to dry before putting it back in to the frame. I then put my pins in/on those. I didn't leave the glass in because some of my pins open up & if they were behind glass it wouldn't be possible to open them. I got the frames at Target (I think they were about $20 or $25 each) & the cork tiles are $5 for a pack of 4I've seen them at both Target & WalMart.
Here is a link to another thread where I posted how we display/store our pins. The boards are much fuller now, but still using same ones. However, may have to put together a couple more soon!!! http://www.passporterboards.com/foru...ying-pins.html
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Jennifer / Eeyore is my favorite!! OMG - He's sooooo grown up!!!! And an EAGLE SCOUT!! I can still remember my cute little Tiger Cub! 2016 Reading Goal - 75 books
We keep ours on a corkboard and I just store the backs separately so that every trip we take we can weed out the "traders" to put on our lanyards to bring with us.
Ditto about the shadow box - we have moving ones so behind glass wouldnot work well for the whole collection, but I do have a shadow box of a special birthday trip we took for my DS 8th birthday. In it I have all our "firsts"...a photo of the whole gang at 1900 Park Fare, a FP from TSMM, the receipt from our beignets (first time at POFQ) etc, and included are 3 pins - first time for Food and Wine Festival, the special SegWay pin we got for taking our (first ever, of course) segway tour at Epcot.....anyway, you get the idea. We love it! It's on the buffet in our kitchen and even though it's been there for 1 year and a half, I still stop and look at it often and enjoy it much more than the pin board that's just filled with them - that I enjoy showing to other people though.
Here is a link to another thread where I posted how we display/store our pins. The boards are much fuller now, but still using same ones. However, may have to put together a couple more soon!!! http://www.passporterboards.com/foru...ying-pins.html
Oh, I hadn't thought of doing that.
I have to finish my current set of shadow boxes first though, they've been waiting since Fall 2010, and only two are fully complete out of 14.
Definitely something to keep in mind though, as many of our pins are interactive and Stitch and I like to wear them to work occasionally.
We have some in shadowboxes framed really nice. I also have a cork board of them above my scrapbooking table as inspiration. I also read somewhere someone used those plastic canvas sheets that are used by needlepoint crafters and put those in a binder.
I know the hard ones for us are the ones we want to keep on the cards they came on. Someone suggested once to use baseball card holders but they only hold the small ones. We are still working on creating our book. My DH already has an official Disney Pin Trading one but it is almost full.
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) segway tour at Epcot.....anyway, you get the idea. We love it! It's on the buffet in our kitchen and even though it's been there for 1 year and a half, I still stop and look at it often and enjoy it much more than the pin board that's just filled with them - that I enjoy showing to other people though.
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