Octopus Backpack

Jennifer Mones is a California illustrator who makes and sells octopus backpacks on Etsy. They’re hand-stitched, made to your specifications—whatever colors, whatever materials you want—and she ships them to you. Around thirty bucks each. There’s something about discovering a genuinely well-designed object made by an actual person that makes you want to own it immediately. Not because you need one, but because someone looked at an octopus and a blank canvas of fabric and decided they belonged together. I keep thinking about ordering one.