2015 Completed Pages Scrapbook Challenge - Page 3 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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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Yay, Pago & Cam! You're both ahead of me, but I'll catch up soon.
I finished 8 pages on my anniversary cruise album yesterday, for a total of 18/300.
I'll be visiting my friend who moved to St. Louis, and cropping with her, from around the 20th for 3 days or so. I hope to get bunches and bunches of pages done...now I just have to make sure I have pictures to work with!
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Christmas 2014 is done! 10 pages done to document the 5 separate holiday events we had. With that I am at 26/200.
I will probably run out of adhesive tomorrow and will not get to Michaels until Wednesday.
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Luke gets so tickled at scrappers use of the term adhesives for some unknown reason. But he does appreciate that I have a drawer labeled adhesives when he needs one.
Great work finishing the Christmas 2014 album.
Great work, Cheryl and Ginger, too!
aboard, Crystal! These challenges have really helped me keep on pace.
I was able to get another 10 pages completed on the October album. bringing my year-to-date total to 30 pages. I'm still waiting on some papers from Scrap Your Trip that I hope get her soon as I'm about to need them.
Still working on picture sorting here! Started to do a little research on my next area of Alaska, too, by reading a book I purchased on the cruise. So, no layouts, but working towards doing them soon. I hope to print some pictures this week.
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2017 Scrapbooking Goal - 130 - actual - 0
2016 Scrapbooking Goal - 125 - actual 29
2015 Scrapbooking Goal - 100 - actual 75
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Haimia, you're making good progress!
I'm going through the digital pix from DS14's (almost DS15) Eagle Court of Honor from last year. I've named them, then I have to choose them, then go back and edit them (so many people sprouted double chins that don't really have them, and I think I can fix most) and order 'em. I'll need plenty for next week's cropping visit to my buddy's place in St. Louis!
Ginger, I wish you could fix my double chin! You are going to have so much fun at your friends.
I got a little work done on 1 page today, but I've been in a funk today and just didn't feel creative. I'm also anxious for some papers to arrive from Scrap Your Trip to finish up my sections on MK and Epcot. I ordered them on December 30, so I think each day they'll be in the mail. But not yet!
Ginger, I wish you could fix my double chin! You are going to have so much fun at your friends.
I got a little work done on 1 page today, but I've been in a funk today and just didn't feel creative. I'm also anxious for some papers to arrive from Scrap Your Trip to finish up my sections on MK and Epcot. I ordered them on December 30, so I think each day they'll be in the mail. But not yet!
Hope they turn up soon!
I've done eight more pages in my digital photobook for my friend, so I'm up to 11.
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with your picture sorting, Haimia! 
You are going to have so much fun at your friends. 
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