paper market bag

This is the first and LAST market bag that I am going to make out of paper. I thought it would be a fun experiment to try....NOT. This was not fun. First of all I had to cut the pattern out of butcher - easy part - had to decorate the paper so it was not all just white - tedious - cover the decorated paper with clear contact paper - getting more tendios and pissy - cutting out newspaper for padding between the front and the inside - getting to be more of a pain - Assembling the front, padding (newspaper) and lining together and sewing them up - a royal pain in my ass. While fabric will fold and move through a sewing machine easily, paper covered with clear contact paper is stiff and does not move smoothly. If I hadn't already spend two days working on this thing I would have just thrown it away. It measures 16" x 18" and.....damnit I am going to use it. I thought it would be good for cold food or frozen food from the market.