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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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08-06-2005, 09:59 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 570
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Thinking Like A Scrapbooker
I have to admit that when I read TR and people said that they took pictures for their scrapbooks...well I thought they were insane. I always thought that you just went on vacation, took a bunch of random pictures (well not random), and then came home and somehow got it to fit. I know some people do that (I did) until my scrapbooking addiction got the best of me. So, the point of this message is: When I recently went on vacation, I started thinking about what pictures would look great and how I would put them on a page, while i was taking them. It sort of naturally happened. Weird! So, my question is:
Do any of you do the same thing, or am I just weird?
I see all of your lovely books and wonder how on earth you come up with such spectacular ideas!
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08-06-2005, 11:44 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
Posts: 13,884
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Re: Thinking Like A Scrapbooker
With the digital camera, I have started taking TONS more pictures. I still try to take good pictures, just more of them. Then I can sit down and pick and choose what I want in my album with sort of pages in mind. I don't usually have an idea, though, until I'm looking at the photos and a blank page and I build it from there.
So, no, you are not weird! Have fun!
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08-06-2005, 03:27 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 4,613
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Re: Thinking Like A Scrapbooker
I was just talking about this with the cashier at Archiever's. I do a little of both what you and Dawn said. With the digital camera, I take tons of pics, but yet I mostly do take the pics with the scrapbook in mind. Sometimes after I take the pics and am waiting in line for something, I start to think about possible layouts. Sometimes when I can't fall asleep right away at night, I think about the book I'm working on. How weird am I?!? I do get stuck sometimes though, so when I get stuck for ideas, I go to the 2peas website to get some ideas. I think a lot of people who scrapbook do this. I'm just not clever enough to come up with it all on my own. Plus, you look through the supplies you have and then come up with ideas.
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08-06-2005, 10:28 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: WI
Posts: 17,126
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Re: Thinking Like A Scrapbooker
My last two trips I've taken photos with an idea for scrapping in mind. It's definately much easier to take loads of photos with the digital camera, just to make sure you've got the great shot.
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08-06-2005, 10:43 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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Re: Thinking Like A Scrapbooker
<font color="blue"> I have been taking Pics of my cat just for Scrap pages.  I also have Ideas of what pictures I would love to take when/If I get back to WDW.</font> |
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08-07-2005, 01:38 AM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Chicago
Posts: 4,812
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Re: Thinking Like A Scrapbooker
On one of my Disney trips I had decided ahead of time that I was going to make an ABC Disney book for that trip. I based it on the Disney ABCs from this Passporter site. Anyway, before we left I wrote out what each of the letters stand for. I made sure I took pictures that fit each letter. Some were easy, like I is for Ice Cream. My DD eats ice cream every day while on vacation. Some were generic so that I could put in any "spontaneous" pictures. Like X is for eXtra Special.
Normally I am not that bad. But I was getting tired of the same old Disney books.
Maggie
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08-07-2005, 03:17 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
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: Thinking Like A Scrapbooker
I have started to do that. Where I take one great photo, say in one of the World Showcase countries, I will then make sure that there are a couple of others to go with that photo on a page. I don't see anything weird in that at all.  |
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08-07-2005, 02:02 PM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 4,613
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Re: Thinking Like A Scrapbooker
O.K., here's one that may be considered extreme...my DH thinks I'm nuts when I pre-plan to dress the kids in army green outfits the day we plan to visit AK. It just makes scrapping those pages so much easier when their clothes blend in with the mats and background papers I use, hee, hee. Plus, the kids clothes coordinate every day, with the same color schemes, so it's easier to scrap. |
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08-07-2005, 10:18 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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Re: Thinking Like A Scrapbooker
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O.K., here's one that may be considered extreme...my DH thinks I'm nuts when I pre-plan to dress the kids in army green outfits the day we plan to visit AK. It just makes scrapping those pages so much easier when their clothes blend in with the mats and background papers I use, hee, hee. Plus, the kids clothes coordinate every day, with the same color schemes, so it's easier to scrap.
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 <font color="blue">I might have to give that one a go. </font> |
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