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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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03-08-2006, 08:13 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Wall art?
Do you have any? We have a couple of paintings done by amateur local artists, plus a couple of pictures of the North taken by a professional photographer that Dan hung out with on one of his Northern businss trips. The photographs are my favourites - one is a picture of a polar bear taken by the photographer hiding underneath a truck and you can definitely see the bear is trying to figure out how he is going to get his lunch out from under that truck! The other is an igloo that the photographer built - it's a twilight photo and he has a light in the igloo so it is illuminated and it's absolutely beautiful!
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03-08-2006, 08:19 PM
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Guide since 2003
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: West Mifflin, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,546
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Re: Wall art?
Nope.. I'm a people picture person.. one wall is totally devoted to my kids.. from birth to present .
my office walls are Disney.. framed puzzles, my beloved partners statue & my Donny Osmond collage..
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03-08-2006, 08:44 PM
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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: Wall art?
In the living room, I have two paintings that my mom did when we lived in Germany and she took art classes. One is a landscape and one is a still life...very nicely done. I need to take a picture of the still life sometime, it's got a partial hidden Mickey! I also have a copy of the Flight Into Egypt (Mary, Joseph, and Jesus resting on the Sphynx) in there.
In our room, I have a very large replica of a work of art that was/is in Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK (my DGF used to be a guard there after he retired) called Rural Courtship that was his favorite. I also have a very nice tapestry, very Italian villa looking in there.
In my office, I have a work of art that Sarah did when she was 5 and won an award for. It is a very close up of a section of a Georgia O'Keefe painting (I'll have to photo that, too) that is just beautiful in here. I've also got a couple of scrapbook pages framed.
I have some pieces from Marcus designs (English) in our common room and I've done some Italian looking swags here and there to round things out.
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03-08-2006, 08:49 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: second star to the right
Posts: 13,308
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Re: Wall art?
We have a Dan Mackin painting called "Morning Glory Bay" in the bedroom, a 50th anniversary giclee of the castle w/ the Partners statue shadow in the walkway thru the castle in the dining room - also in the dining room is a big mirror that a friend had our wedding picture laser engraved into, plus we have 4 Dick Durrenstein lithos - Goofy, Mickey, Minnie and Donald. We also have some other things hanging around.
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03-08-2006, 09:07 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 24,867
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Re: Wall art?
Disney Posters, Disney Comemmorating Plates, Disney Snow Globes, Disney beanies are all over the walls. Either nailed to the wall or on shelves.
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03-08-2006, 09:45 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
Posts: 14,165
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Re: Wall art?
We're building a collection of old maps of Portland (Maine) for our living room. It's the only thing we could agree on!
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03-08-2006, 09:49 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 3,294
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Re: Wall art?
Our walls are covered in pictures of the kids. Ian, Benji, and Troian Rae from birth to now.
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03-08-2006, 11:21 PM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Posts: 4,751
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Re: Wall art?
Upstairs hallway all Disney prints and cels: If I remember correctly there is the Mickey and English Bobby framed print, Mickey Sorceror cel and Mickey sliding down a piece of film lithograph, I have some others but we haven't hung them yet.
Girls room: nothing yet but we bought 11x14 pictures of the Princesses and Tink to hang when we finally finish redoing their room.
My room: A picture of lighthouse with pictures of sailboats on either side.
Living room: oil painting (local artist) of a lighthouse and ocean, wedding picture, picture of all four girls together and each of them individually.
Dining Room: Large map of the Delaware bay and a picture collage for each of the girls.
Kitchen: 4 Ann Geddes Prints.
Family room: A grouping of Irish themed prints and signs, DH's cop wall including pictures of the 5 generations of Philadelphia Police Officers in his family, signs from police cars, A print of three girls on the beach, three Norman Rockwell prints, some framed pictures of Philadelphia in the late 1800s and early 1900s and some tin signs.
Upstairs bathroom: framed Wyland prints.
Downstairs bathroom: framed prints of children on the beach.
Whew...can you tell we love wall art [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]!! I know the family room sounds really crowded but it's a big room and it all goes together somehow.
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03-08-2006, 11:35 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Texas
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,304
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Re: Wall art?
Our walls are bare, All our art is now packed [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zcry.gif[/img]
I miss my castle poster..
Deb
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03-08-2006, 11:39 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Niagara Falls
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 12,431
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Re: Wall art?
My living room walls are bare.
I have a bunch of Home Interiors pictures on the walls of my spare/scrapping room. Some are real old, some are from when I was a HI rep, and some are from a party I had two years ago. I also have some HI stuff in my kitchen.
I have a huge photo of DH and I that was at our reception and everyone signed the matting. I have plans on dismantling it though and reframing just the photo.
My friend is into photography and I have one of her pictures on the wall in my hallway. It's a black and white close up of a flower with dew on it. She gave it to us as a wedding present. It's real special to me, especially I don't see this friend very often.
Wow. That was a long & drawn out answer to a very simple question. LOL [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif[/img]
Jennifer
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03-08-2006, 11:54 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,478
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Re: Wall art?
I have a couple of small prints by a local Cape Cod artist. Mostly it's my own photography on the walls. I'd like to have more art though.
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03-09-2006, 01:49 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager PassPorter Guide Author
Community Rank: Legend VIP
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: Wall art?
We've got some arty photos of New York, including a beautiful one of the World Trade Center, so we can always remember. We've also got lots of photos we've taken from our travels - lots of Disney and some of Washington as well and some of the cross stitches I've done are up on the wall too.
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03-09-2006, 06:16 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: Wall art?
We have a couple Thomas Kinkade prints that my parents got us, but that's it.
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03-09-2006, 07:59 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Wall art?
No, but I wish we did. Our walls are pretty bare.
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03-09-2006, 08:51 AM
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Facebook Addict
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Philadelphia
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 39,682
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Re: Wall art?
We framed some scribblings that each boy made when they were toddlers and hung them over the living room sofas. Most of our walls are decorated with pictures or photo collages, though.
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