Shopping Bag Tutorial

Today, I'm going to talk about what I call Little Shopping Bags. You know those paper shopping bags with the cord or twill tape handles that some stores give you when you buy something small (and which you then use to carry things around in for months)? I see people using bags like this to carry their lunches to work all the time. I've been known to use them myself. However, they're not very sturdy and they don't do well in the elements. Also, they're ugly. I was sure we could do better.