I have a suggestion for those of you who love to make purses. Try a lightweight real leather or real suede piece and lining it with fancy fabric and lots of pockets. On the outside of mine I made a pocket using a piece of brown leather about 7"x9", cut it out with pinking shears and then stitched it to the bag about 1/2" from edge. This enhanced the picture I had embroidered on the leather of a beautiful buffalo with some small Indian stick figures dancing around the buffalo in the grass. Most unusual receiving lots of compliments.
I love working with leather, also making my GD a aqua green leather skirt, matched it up with a turtleneck sweather onto which I stitched her initials cut out of the leather.