 So my dear craft family, this video is very special just because you have to watch me in person and I felt that this, what I would like to say, it has to be face to face, even I don't like to be front of camera, I literally hate it, but for now please, but with me I need to say something and I hope I will not mess up. In the past few years I received amazing heartwarming support and encouraging support from each and every one of you and I will be forever thankful for everything you do for me. But last week when I made a video just to explain why I am not on YouTube, it was something that I didn't expect. I've been pretty much down with my thoughts, with my feelings just because in my personal life I had huge expectations from something that I wanted and it didn't happen, so I felt I need to apologize and I didn't expect the reaction I received, your amazing comments, sharing your stories which was quite surprising how many of us are single moms who went through the very similar story, it was really wow, it was eye opening, it was, I felt sad and honored at the same time and that was so huge mix of feelings and your awesome support, encouraging words, even say hello, it was everything what I needed at that time and I will be forever thankful for the courage, the hope you gave me through to all your messages, that's why you need to watch me right now because I felt I need to say it, I need to say it in the person and I need to thank you in the person for everything you did for me and I hope my channel will always bring good feeling to you, I hope I will always find a way how to get back to you what I just received, the heartwarming feeling, amazing support and togetherness, the time is most important value in this world and you shared your time with me and for that I would like to say huge thank you, I will remember this one forever and I will always try to bring some good content, I hope you will always enjoy my videos and I will always bring you this happiness and this joy and good feeling back to you so thank you so so much for all your amazing support, I read all your messages and I treasure them all, I need you to know how I feel about you and how thankful I am so today's video it's continuing of that newspaper craft but if you don't have newspapers just try it with book pages, I hope you will enjoy it in today's video I put together videos I made when I created basket from newspapers I didn't know what I'm doing actually so my explanation through the video will be more like here I did this one but it wasn't right, it was many mistakes if I will make it one more time in the future I know I will make it probably a little bit different way hopefully I will get there I'm not sure I hope you will enjoy today's video thank you so much for sharing your time with me today and I hope you will enjoy these baskets you can see now are used in a Czech Republic to store strawberries mostly and it was the biggest inspiration it was the actually inspiration for me and I tried to kind of copy the pattern and made it from newspapers first I cut it two gray boards in the size I needed to big enough to store to make a platform or base for my baskets I cut it in the size which can fit my journal which I'm making from newspapers and then I had to create kind of like flat strips from newspapers so I took newspapers folded newspapers around my metal ruler cut the strips and then glued these strips together I made needed to make these newspapers a little bit stronger to make sure I will have good base so I always folded these newspaper strips on half and then one more time on half then I folded the sides to the middle fold I applied the glue to glue all these folded sides and that way I have created nice strong strips my ruler measure five centimeters so I had base strips 10 centimeters wide each of these strips and in the end when I folded those strips it was two and a half centimeters wide strips and I have created 22 strips like this from my newspapers 11 on each side I mean 11 vertically 11 horizontally placed in that pattern when I started to put together this this waving pattern I took two of these strips and I glued them together in the middle so first I folded them on half to mark the middle of each of them and then I glued these folds together and then I just started to place my papers in the waving pattern which means one on the top of one strip next one under that strip I hope it that makes sense I hope that you will understand what I mean with that waving pattern always on the vertical one strip I glued a line of or row of strips horizontal way one on the top one on the bottom I hope that makes sense at least what I'm doing on the video it will make sense once I had strips glued on one one vertical strip I started to add those other vertical strips I think that this was the part where I made the mistake if I will do some kind of this waved pattern ever again for making the basket I would definitely glue these vertical strips just in the middle on that middle horizontal strip and then the edges I will only wave through the horizontal strips to make them free and make them flexible for a future weaving or waving the basket so when I glued these strips all together I started to fold this waved pattern in the size I needed for my journal so I placed the journal inside I folded the base and then I started to fold it those you those other sides to make base for my basket and I also realized that the sides of this waving pattern are not too long so I had to make another strips from newspapers and I had to extend the sides of this waved pattern to make the side strips long enough so I can continue with that waving around the corner of the future basket I hope that makes sense because I have no idea how the other way I should explain it so to make a beautiful this this basket beautiful I used gesso white gesso and I applied white gesso all over of these newspaper strips and then I started to sewn this this pattern on my sewing machine and here I noticed how much easier my work will be if these strips will be not glued together I had to rip them off apart here and there but I made it through so then the next step was to make stronger my chipboard pieces I wrapped them to the brown paper and I also created my template for punching the holes for future kind of like legs of my basket I used paper fasteners and I applied those or fixed those paper fasteners to the corners of the bottom of my basket so it will be stronger and then I glued two chipboard pieces together to make that bottom of the basket stronger I also wrapped these papers to my collage paper from newspapers to make it you know all work together so here you can watch me how I am wrapping to that collage paper it was quite fun this was really easy to do and I did enjoy it and I know that basket looks really awesome with this bottom with this strong bottom and it holds really well the journal I have created this basket for once I had my bottom of that basket done I did glue the chipboard piece on my waved pattern and I let it dried through the night with many books on the top to make sure that it's all glued together and here you can see my waving continuing waving of these extended edges first I waved these papers together and I fixed those ends with paper clips to make sure it will hold until I'm finishing the corner then I needed to kind of create that corner so I folded these papers with my hands to create actual corner of that basket and this was it wasn't that hard I thought it will be hard but it actually wasn't that hard there was a really important to keep those strips fixed with those paper clips together so it will be not unweaving while I am trying to glue these strips together it was quite fun and I did enjoy it so much but as I said I didn't know if I'm doing doing it right so it's not proper tutorial it's more like sharing how I get to that pattern I have to say I will probably do something like this again because it makes really beautiful storage for the journal so once I had all corners done I chose the size I want and here I went with those little squares they were kind of like navigating me where I should cut the ends of these strips even they were glued together these strips that pattern was glued together I wanted to make sure it will don't get ripped off so first I sewn all the edges around that basket on my sewing machine and then I also added the ribbon or trim all around and sew it a few more times again to make nice and vintage shape or vintage shape on that basket I did use my colors it was I think brown stone acrylic brown stone and I did paint all that basket with brown stone so I always applied a coat of that brown stone acrylic paint and then wipe it with wet wipes to make just shades not to properly change the color just to make a vintage looking shade on the basket and I did this technique on all around of this basket also on the bottom and inside and for decorating all around around that gray trim I did choose this nature style of trim it's really beautiful and I do believe it gave to this basket really nice look so I used my hot glue gun and I glued this trim around that top of that basket and as a last decoration I chose a book metal label I forgot the name label maker not labor maker book label frame metal frame this one and I just fixed that frame first I applied to that frame a small paper with what is there magazine I think yeah magazine and then I glued this metal label onto my basket with my hot glue gun and I fixed in fix there those brats and that was all what I did with this basket it was quite fun even I didn't know what I'm doing but I did enjoy it I hope you did enjoy this walk through of the process making of this basket and I hope you will try it yourself it's lots of fun thank you so much for watching have a wonderful day and I will see you soon bye