I'll bet not many people have got one of these...

Inspired by this pin on Pinterest, I set about making something similar for my friend's birthday.  Not too shabby and quite chic at first look.

However, it seems one needs a whole lotta zipper to make your average size make up bag - and all I had was about 6 inches!  So it turned out to be a teeny-tiny make up purse:

Not your average sized make-up bag.  What to use it for?

Ta-dah!  Possibly the world's first make-up-pad-remover-overnight-stay bag?  I await with interest the look on my friend's face as she upwraps it. But hey, as ever with home-made gifts, it's the thought that counts, right?