Dear fellow papercrafters,

As we’re sure a few of you have noticed lately, model posting has kind of slowed below the expected schedule that we have kept since the start. A lot has been going around in our lives and the situation has led the team to be a little low on time, organization and even will to go on lately... And sadly, after talking together, we came to the conclusion that it won't be changing any time soon.

Thus, after mutual agreement, we decided that we are not going to post models regularly anymore and also decided to take a break for a little while. We can tell you that there will be new models, just not when or how many. Of course, models already on the site will stay up and still be accessible.

When we started Paperpokés, we were a bunch of friends who decided to get together and create things solely for the pure enjoyment of making Pokémon papercraft models. As sad as it can sound, a while ago we lost track of those simple reasons and started to view it not as a hobby, but as a job, where we had to produce new stuff before each deadlines even when we didn’t feel like it. This situation pretty much made each of us lose interest in making papercrafts one by one…

Thank you everyone who encouraged us and followed us every Monday. We appreciate all of that and everyone who gave us the push to keep going for as long as we did. Without some support and encouragement, we wouldn't have even made it this far.

However, as we said, sometimes the responsibility is too much, and we can't manage it. It was fun while it lasted, and it did indeed last for a long time (4 years in December) but everything must come to an end.

We're just sorry it was so soon and abrupt.

- The Paperpokés Team
Dear fellow papercrafters,

As we’re sure a few of you have noticed lately, model posting has kind of slowed below the expected schedule that we have kept since the start. A lot has been going around in our lives and the situation has led the team to be a little low on time, organization and even will to go on lately... And sadly, after talking together, we came to the conclusion that it won't be changing any time soon.

Thus, after mutual agreement, we decided that we are not going to post models regularly anymore and also decided to take a break for a little while. We can tell you that there will be new models, just not when or how many. Of course, models already on the site will stay up and still be accessible.

When we started Paperpokés, we were a bunch of friends who decided to get together and create things solely for the pure enjoyment of making Pokémon papercraft models. As sad as it can sound, a while ago we lost track of those simple reasons and started to view it not as a hobby, but as a job, where we had to produce new stuff before each deadlines even when we didn’t feel like it. This situation pretty much made each of us lose interest in making papercrafts one by one…

Thank you everyone who encouraged us and followed us every Monday. We appreciate all of that and everyone who gave us the push to keep going for as long as we did. Without some support and encouragement, we wouldn't have even made it this far.

However, as we said, sometimes the responsibility is too much, and we can't manage it. It was fun while it lasted, and it did indeed last for a long time (4 years in December) but everything must come to an end.

We're just sorry it was so soon and abrupt.

- The Paperpokés Team
Wow!
It's kinda both awesome, crazy and unbelievable that it already been three years since Paperpokés was started. We created the group a little before that on the Nintendo Papercraft forum where we all met and then posted the first models on Paperpokés on December 1st, 2008. We were so young back then :P

Now, there's more than 375 models on the site (with more than 1000 pictures on our Facebook page too!)

and 1 814 952 Pokémon fan visited our page (you're all so awesome, thank you sincerely)

for 8 537 753 pageviews.... (that just blow my mind!)

....and there's even more incoming!

So many things happened this last year with many team members making life changing decisions like going to university, moving to the North Pole or becoming engaged... all this turmoil did take its toll on the website and it had sometime been hard to follow schedule, but we still hanged on and made a lot of our best models this year. Props should go to Brandon for keeping us ahead, even tho he's always making his posts 4 minutes before the deadlines :/ hehe

So, now it's 2012 in a shortwhile, so I'd like to take the time to wish everyone Happy New Year, with joy, love, health and wealth coming your way. I don't think we'll be able to finish all the Pokémon characters before the end of the world, but I promise you we'll give it a run for its money (what's wrong with me tonite with all my idioms!?!)

So, 'til then; Take care, Have fun and keep following us!


PS. You should all wish Brandon a Happy Birthday today!
As many of you already know, we had to change our domain name a little while ago.
Thus, if you didn't  already do it, please update your bookmark to one of these:

www.pokemonpapercraft.net
paperpokes.blogspot.com

It would be nice of you to also update your site if you have any links leading to us.
Thanks.

We'll keep you updated on the whole situation and have some news for you soon.

Thanks for being there and have a nice day!

The Paperpokés Team
Sorry, we're having some problems with Godaddy and the domain name isn't working for a little while.

Use the blogger link instead to enter the site until the problem is resolved.

paperpokes.blogspot.com/

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