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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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 got to spend the afternoon scrapping and worked on a few pages of a mini book I am (finally) doing of DD's first trip to BBB back in the fall of '06.
The tag has sticker letters, ribbon, a cut out of a paper flower, glitter, stickey gems and a Tink paper clip on it.
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Great page. I am trying to get in the habit of using things other than stickers. At a garage sale I picked up a bag of ribbons but not as yet used any of them. I guess I am not sure of my ability to make the page look 1/2 way presentable. I am getting in to the digital thing everyone is talking and am having a blast. I am still going to have to do the traditional because of the money invested there.
Here are my layouts for the March challenge. Thanks Marcie for making this one to use tags! I've been slowly working on a book from our December trip and I had made autograph tags for the characters to sign with the hopes of incorporating them into my scrapbook. I've been trying to make my book interactive so the tags have been designed to pull out and my journalling is underneath.
This page is from my visit to AK where I met Mickey and Minnie on the character trail near the Festival of the Lion King show. Both the Mickey tag (top left corner) and the Minnie tag (bottom right corner) pull out to see the journalling.
My Donald page is about all the places we came across Donald this visit. The Donald tag on the left page is secured with a disney paper clip and pulls out to show the journal box.
I made more tags to give to my niece and nephew for their trip this past week. Their Dad called to say that all the characters loved their specialized tags and that the kids were excited to use them along with their regular autograph book. I'll try to post a picture of them soon. I used my Cricut to make alot of the characters and names for the tags.
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A Fairy Godmother wannabe -
Look what a little Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo can do!
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Great pages, Karen. Those are really beautiful. I love what you did with the tags and how they hide the journaling.
You put a ton of work into these pages! And I love the little Donald tangled up in the lights. Looks like me when I try to pull the Christmas lights out.
ColleenG - For these layouts, I only used my Mickey Fonts cartridge for the "D" in Ducky. The other letters were from a sticker sheet of glitter letters. I didn't have a "D" so I cut that one out and glittered it up. For the tags I made for my neice and nephew, I used the Mickey and Friends and the Fonts cartridges to make Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Donald, Goofy and Pluto and their names. For some reason, I can't get that picture to load properly so I don't have a way to post a pic of them.
I didn't know that there is a Pooh cartridge to come out - I can't wait! Thanks for the info! I'd like to make new tags for my next trip in October and figure out a way to have a book made out of just the tags. Any suggestions anyone?
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A Fairy Godmother wannabe -
Look what a little Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo can do!
ColleenG - For these layouts, I only used my Mickey Fonts cartridge for the "D" in Ducky. The other letters were from a sticker sheet of glitter letters. I didn't have a "D" so I cut that one out and glittered it up. For the tags I made for my neice and nephew, I used the Mickey and Friends and the Fonts cartridges to make Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Donald, Goofy and Pluto and their names. For some reason, I can't get that picture to load properly so I don't have a way to post a pic of them.
I didn't know that there is a Pooh cartridge to come out - I can't wait! Thanks for the info! I'd like to make new tags for my next trip in October and figure out a way to have a book made out of just the tags. Any suggestions anyone?
Hi Karen- Thanks for the info. I pre-ordered the Pooh and Friends cartridge from ohmycrafts.com There is also a Pooh font coming out too. We are going in October also. I can't wait to get back. I am so far behind in my scrapbooking. I've barely made a dent in our 2005 trip and haven't even printed the pictures from our Jan. 2007 trip. I need a week of no work, no kids and no husband to get caught up. Wishful thinking LOL!!
Do you use the tags for and autograph book? What a great idea! What if you fastened them together with a brad so they fan out? Or do you put the tags on individual pages? Sounds like a really cute idea.
I don't have many pages handwritten because I hate to see my handwriting. This was their first trip to the ocean, and all he could say while watching the waves was "Here comes another one!", so that's what's on one of the tags.
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