Portocal Journey

When I consulted with Uncle Google if 'he' could direct me to some sources for my searching of "doll blogger template", it turned out some of results for "doll template" were our best childhood games Paper Doll. You remember and surely ever played this game in your elementary school times, right?

I used to save my pocket money just to buy this paper filled with cutie pie dolls with their all-girls'-dream dresses. And it was so a lucky for me if my mother picked me up instead of my trishaw driver since I could ask her to buy the paper doll in the big scale which was pricey for an elementary schoolgirl standard.

Every Sunday back when we were kiddies, I and my best neighbour girlfriends Molida, Melda, Nirma and Evi would alternately visit our homes with a shoe box filled with our paper doll. Yes, we stored them in a shoe box . In my home, we used to take place the girls' activity in our terrace.

After deciding where was our territory to build our paper doll's housing, we started to decorate it. And it usually ended by Molida had the biggest house. She needed long time to decorate her doll's house. She even drew rice with pencil for her doll's "food" since it never be other 'face' except the Caucasians. That's why there was no rice. 

We acted like neighbors by visiting other's 'houses' and we used the former cigarette box for the 'transportation' . The dolls had names and we made them to 'role' as someone we wanted them to be. It could be a schoolgirl, mommy or an auntie. We chatted like how a schoolgirl, mommy or an auntie should be. Teehee..


I also found this 1950's paper doll Betsy McCall.

Betsy McCall was announced in April of 1951 and first appeared on the pages of McCall's magazine in May, 1951. Nosy, her six-month old dachshund, is seen with her in that first issue. The next month, June of 51, she is joined by her mother, Mrs. McCall (no first name known), her father, Mr. James McCall appeared in July and and Cousin Barbara, who is Betsy's age, followed in August. Through the years other various siblings, cousins, friends and pets became a part of her adventures. Source

I missed my childhood memory so I wanted to bring the flashback to this time by downloading some printable paper dolls. But it turned out I'm not that patient to cut them out and then do the 'tab and fold' session . And I caused some waste paper from the unused paper cutout. I think I must search the manual one in some malls.

My 9th birthday gown


I ever been a little doctor but sadly I couldn't find where my little doctor uniform was 

Granny's blouse


So we can see people nowadays are using 60's or 70's style back 

Mommy's Wedding Kebaya


A kebaya is a traditional blouse-dress combination that originates from Indonesia and is worn by women in Indonesia,Malaysia, Brunei, Burma, Singapore, southern Thailand, Cambodia and the southern part of the Philippines. It is sometimes made from sheer material such as silk, thin cotton or semi-transparent nylon or polyester, adorned with brocade or floral pattern embroidery. A kebaya is usually worn with a sarong or batik kain panjang, or other traditional woven garment such as ikat, songket with a colorful motif.--Source.

Mommy's hand-made handbag


Our ashoka flowers are crazily blooming



Back when I was a little girl, I used to pick this flower to suck the nectar. It's so sweet. But today I try to do the same thing again, I feel nothing. It's maybe because the bigger we grow up to be, the higher tolerance we have for sweetness