Now, you can get templates to make totes, on the Internet, you can buy them in craft stores. But today, I'm showing you how you can use just a regular old box that you happen to have in your pantry, and a piece of typing paper, to make a cute little gift tote, to wrap a present in. So we're going to use the box, put the paper down on top of it, and align our two edges, and just give it a little pinch. Then we're going to use a pencil. I'm going to use a chopstick today, to burnish that crease and its friend, right next door. Burnish both of those; goes right back onto the box. And now, you've wrapped a gift before, so you know the score. You just follow the same technique as if you were wrapping this like a regular present. I'm going to just do that. We're going to pinch this. We're going to burnish these creases, with the pencil again, so it doesn't have to be perfect. You want it to be nice and sharp. That makes the bag look more attractive, but, it also, just makes it hold its shape better, so it's more useful. You can use this finished bag for a little present, of course. It's also kind of a fun little thing to have on your desk to put, you know, paper clips or pencils, or something like that in. I'm going to go back on the box, one more time. And then, we're going to find these final folds here, and here. Now depending on the size of your box and the size of your paper, you may have, as I have, some excess paper, to trim. Not an emergency. We're just going to take a scissor, and give it a little snip. Typing paper comes pretty much one size, and boxes come lots of other sizes, so there'll be little adjustments you'll need to make along the way. And, a little bit of tape. After we have this all taped up, we're going to go right to, making our window.
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