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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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06-17-2002, 01:51 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Wawayanda, NY
Posts: 2,177
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Re: What\'s your theme?
My bedroom is blue and white with touches of yellow. In our last apartment, DH and I put up a beautiful blue and white wallpaper border along the ceiling, but this time I just stenciled one. The colors are so calming. I have such a collection of blue and white knick-nacks strategically placed throughout the room. BTW, did anyone see that blue/white toile Mickey & Minnie comforter set in the new Disney catalog? I want it!!! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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06-17-2002, 01:59 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Florida
Posts: 539
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Re: What\'s your theme?
Bedroom is Animal Kingdom Lodgey [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
and the kitchen is on the way to Tikiroom Chic!
Bathroom, is also somewhat Disneyfied, but will be more soon when we switch out the framed pics and get a new shower curtain.
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06-17-2002, 02:03 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: the Jersey Shore
Posts: 824
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Re: What\'s your theme?
The only "themed rooms" in the house belong to the kids.
DD#1: Disney Princesses in pink & white
DD#2: Classic Pooh- her room was once the nursery for both girls
the playroom: A garden theme with butterflies, ladybugs, and bumble bees hanging from the ceiling, lots of flower and flower pot decorations, and lattice along the bottom edges of the walls.
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06-17-2002, 02:04 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 7,150
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Re: What\'s your theme?
adoneko, I saw that set in the cataloge and wanted to get it too! But I wanted to get the bedframe to go with it, for I need one! DH said okay, but after seeing the price for shipping on the bedframe! YIKES [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] I decided not to get it. I still might get it, just have to not look at the shipping costs and do it! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
I love my living room, all dark cherry wood, I would love to have a dining room set of cherry too. Ahhh one day, after I get my bedframe! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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06-17-2002, 02:06 PM
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Recovering VMK Addict!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Thornton, CO
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,087
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Re: What\'s your theme?
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Originally posted by Beaner:
Is dust and cat hair a theme? [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Add dog hair to the mix and you have the theme of my house. |
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06-17-2002, 02:06 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Florida
Posts: 539
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Re: What\'s your theme?
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Originally posted by 2Princesses:
the playroom: A garden theme with butterflies, ladybugs, and bumble bees hanging from the ceiling, lots of flower and flower pot decorations, and lattice along the bottom edges of the walls.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Sounds so cute. waaaahhh! I want a playroom with ladybugs [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] |
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06-17-2002, 02:14 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,738
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Re: What\'s your theme?
Master bedroom has Thomas Kinkade 10" border in between chair rail. Above the Border, the walls are burgandy and below the Border the walls are off white.
We just added another bathroom in the house with white wainscoting and above that, yellow walls. I also had (3) 4" Stained glass Angel tiles that we incorporated into the tub deck. Exciting, Huh? [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
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06-17-2002, 02:20 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Wawayanda, NY
Posts: 2,177
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Re: What\'s your theme?
My living room is dark cherry wood with dark olive green sofa and love seat -- not the ideal colors when you have light-furred kitties. I have to shave the couch every other day! Forget about the dark wood. UGH! I'd love to go with light pine and light colored couches but DH would kill me if I even suggested buying new furniture for the LR. (We just bought the sofas in January with my urging [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] )
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06-17-2002, 02:24 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: What\'s your theme?
My wife is IN to decorating! We have a Mission Arts theme in our family room with all the new furniture she got for Christmas. Our dining room is VERY formal - I inherited my grandmother's heirloom dining room furniture and I just love it - I can always "feel" her presence when I'm in that room and my office opens up to it so I can see it now! Our bedroom is also very formal - classic mahogany furniture with a four poster rice carved bed. So I guess our theme is more, formal classic, with a little mission arts thrown in! Our kids' hall bath is Disney themed though with towels, fixtures, accessories and a great Mickey/Minne shower curtain with mickey hooks!
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06-17-2002, 02:31 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Kempton, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 1,812
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Re: What\'s your theme?
We also have the Mickey bathroom for our kids bathroom - the top half of the wall is white and the bottom half bright yellow with a wallpaper border in between. I painted all the trim in the room bright red (to which my mother said "Do you know how hard that will be to paint over!?")
DD's room is Classic Pooh since that's been the nursery. DS#1 has sort of a wolf theme going, although he was more into wolves when we did the room than he is now. DS#2 has a baseball theme, with wallpaper that looks like the stitching on a baseball and many other things. My favorite thing in his room are the baseball pennants that DH collected when he was a kid.
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06-17-2002, 03:00 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Charlotte, NC USA
Posts: 542
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Re: What\'s your theme?
My DD's room is done as an aquarium. I "sponged" sea creatures and fish in the ocean on all her walls. She also has a great collection of sea shells!!
I must have had a premonition before she was born as I'm not arielsmom for nothing.... [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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06-17-2002, 03:09 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 1,608
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Re: What\'s your theme?
Our 'middle room' (I think it's supposed to be a dining room, but it's smack dab in the middle of the apartment and we don't use it for dining) is decorated in the Old Hollywood theme. I have a Gone With The Wind sign and some plates and another picture with Marilyn, Elvis, James Dean and Marlon in it.
I also have some great old b&w cards I bought of Katherine Hepburn, Bogey, etc.. that I have to get framed.
I also have some collectors plates of Elvis and one of Cinderella there.
It's a great room, but it does need some more work.
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06-17-2002, 03:11 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Maplewood, OH
Posts: 226
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Re: What\'s your theme?
When we finally get to finish the basement, I would like to do it in a Wilderness Lodge theme. All the wood and lodge decorations, we just loved staying there [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] . I would also like to redo our hall bath with Disney, I wonder if DH would care?! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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06-17-2002, 03:55 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 1,197
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Re: What\'s your theme?
My theme? Cat hair, dog hair and dust.
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06-18-2002, 12:22 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Seward, NE
Posts: 2,025
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What\'s your theme?
I was thinking about this and wondering if anyone had a "room" theme that they were particularly proud of?
DH and I (okay, 99% DH) finished our basement ourselves and I have to say, it rocks! We have an old-fashioned baseball(with some Husker stuff added in) border. The bottom half of the walls are olive green with an oak ledge (DH and I made ourselves [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] --I actually helped!) and then a taupe on the top part of the walls. The border sits right above the ledge. We have olive couches that have taupe on the seams (don't know how to explain this).
Our bathroom is Mickey. The bottom is wainscoating(sp?) that has been painted a crisp white and the top is a great deep brick red. I found three circle mirrors that, of course, make Mickey, over our pedastal sink. Then I have his gloves framed and some other great nick-nack Mickey stuff, including towels, soap dispenser, etc. It's all black, red and white. I would re-create these two themes in a future house.
Anyone else?
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