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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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You're doing great Ginger! Trust me, I think digital scrapping is so much quicker. I know that when I finally get back to traditional scrapping (I still need to finish the London 2012 Olympics and our cruise on the Fantasy), I will be a lot slower.
Well, I've done another Christmas present (finally the last one - phew! ) and that adds 26 pages to get me to 593 pages.
I've also selected photos for printing from our Fantasy cruise in December 2012, as I want to traditionally scrap that one, so I'm working on getting back into that too....
Cheryl, you have done an incredible job finished all these digital scrapbooks which I know are going to be loved as Christmas presents.
Ginger, great work! Like you have so much invested in traditional scrapbooking supplies that I'm afraid to waste if I turn to the digital scrapbooks. But the digital ones do look lovely.
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I've done a lot since my last report of 249 pages into my goal of 265!
Before my 3-day crop marathon with my DSis & DSinlaw, I finished 4 pages. Then:
Thursday, 6 pages on the Australia scrapbook.
Friday, 6 more pages on the Australia scrapbook, leaving only the tale of recovering the lost passport, which I'll do sometime this week I hope;
Saturday: started on a farewell scrapbook for our outgoing Scoutmaster, finished 10 pages that I really like.
Grand total: 4 at home + 22 at the crop = 26, + 249 previous pages = 265, my goal!!
Which means, of course, the goal goes up to 300, where it probably should've been all along. I have until 25 November to finish the Scoutmaster scrapbook, so I think I can get there.
No more from me... I'm scrapped out. I still have two digital books to order whenever I see a deal I can use, so I doubt I'll do anymore until we get home in November....
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, Ginger. I'm still working on editing photos from our trip earlier this month, so I'm nowhere even near ordering photos yet. But once I do and those arrive, I'll be spending quite a bit of time in the scrapbook room.
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I've been too busy/disorganized/just plain lazy to update, but I did 4 more pages at home and 6 at a crop on Nov. 7, to bring my total to 285, of my new goal of 300! I should be able to make the goal without a problem, since I'm making a scrapbook for our Scoutmaster, to be presented on the 25th...9 days from now, yikes! I'd better get moving! (I got distracted making that Boy Scout teddy bear, so I had to make more for some other folks.....)
I'll bet some other of you have done some scrapping you haven't recorded yet--let's hear it!
I've been wondering if anyone else has been scrapping recently. I haven't been, as we've been away from vacation (back home today), but I do have some new scrapbooking supplies...
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I finally got the first pictures from our October trip for scrapping some time last week. But then I didn't get to work on any of them until today when I scrapped a whole page. So just 1 more to add to my current total. I've got two more laid out, but I'm not sure I like the color I've picked for the matting, so I've backed away and will look at it again tomorrow. I also ordered the rest of my pictures today, so it will be next week before I have all the pics I want for this book.
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Yay, Cam, it sounds like you made good progress. It stinks having to wait for pictures when you're ready to get moving.
I managed 4 more pages on our Scoutmaster's album tonight, bringing me to 289 toward my new goal of 300. I have to make the goal, since I have just 9 more days until I need to present it! And I need to leave time to take pictures of the pages, too.
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....my total is actually 275, 10 over my original goal.
! I'd better get moving! (I got distracted making that Boy Scout teddy bear, so I had to make more for some other folks.....)
I haven't been, as we've been away from vacation (back home today), but I do have some new scrapbooking supplies... 
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