Butterfly & Moth Field Notes Gift Set

This Field Notes set is the perfect travelling companion.  Ready to take notes, keep key info at hand, serve as a holiday diary or just generally live in your handbag for those moments where you need to write things down.  

The butterfly and moth motifs are originally hand-drawn, inspired from a trip round the Blenheim Palace Butterfly House with my then 1 and 4 year old daughters who found the sheer number of winged insects around them mind-blowing.  I then took these hand-drawn sketches, refined and digitised them to turn into the repeat patterns you can see.

The narrow notebook has 76 pages, with a faint grey dot grid on the recycled white 90gsm paper. The cover is 300gsm, full colour printed on the outside and has a square spine which is stapled in two places and carefully folded to give a neat spine and a flat-close finish. These notebooks are the perfect compromise between the convenience of an A5 Notepad and the useful functionality of a chunkier A5 notebook. 

The slimline pencil case has been printed and handmade in Scotland on 100% eco-cotton, also has a cotton lining and a zip made from recycled plastics with a leather zip pull. It's a great size for on the go, fitting lots of different pens in, or alternatively use it for make-up, accessories, headphones etc or even to keep medication concealed but easy to hand. 

Both items will be packaged individually, with recycled/recyclable belly band and swing tag, but otherwise both are totally plastic free. They’ll then be tied together with paper string, ready for you to give as-is, or re-wrap for extra oomph. If you would like Holchester Designs wrap, along with a hand-written tag, so it’s ready to give or be sent direct, just add gift wrap as part of the checkout process. 

This set would make a brilliant gift - whether for a student off travelling, an avid note-taker when out and about and maybe even a Secret-Santa's at the right time of year.  Plus, in the post it's not too bulky so could go through letterboxes pretty easily too. So you can give the gift of gorgeous everyday stationery knowing that you've thought of the environment and supported a small woman-owned UK based business too.

I want my products to leave as little a mark on the planet as possible. And with this in mind all my products are:

Made in the UK by manufacturers who all source their materials, manage their materials and deal with their waste responsibly. 

1 tree is planted for every order in partnership with Ecologi.

All packaging is plastic free, from tags and belly bands to postal packaging, and where possibly is also used multiple times. 

If your item does come covered, it’s in a biodegradable cellophane which will naturally decompose but also keeps your paper looking crisp on it’s travels. 

You can read more about my attempt to be as sustainable a business as possible in this blog post. 

All orders are processed within 3-5 working days and standard postage is via Royal Mail Tracked 48. 

All items are sent plastic free and in some cases the postal packaging you receive may have been used before.  Wherever possible I do recycle packaging, but I do check it’s in good enough condition to protect your items before it’s used.  I don’t, however, think it’s right to say I'm all about being sustainable and then use totally fresh postal packaging for every order. 

For all non-personalised items we accept returns up to 14 days after delivery, as long as the item is unused and in its original condition.   

For the full Shipping and Returns policy please click here. 

Do you make everything yourself? 

All the designs you see on my products are the results of my own original hand-drawn artwork which in turn I transform digitally into repeat patterns.  The physical products are then printed/made/sewn by specialist manufacturers from around the UK. 

Do you use AI in your designs?

AI (Artificial intelligence) is not used at any stage of my creative process. 

As a small business who uses lots of different tools, it’s impossible to avoid AI altogether in the running of my business, but my creative process is absolutely where I draw the line.  You can read more about my thoughts on AI, and how it is involved in other areas of my business, in this blog post. 

Do you take wholesale orders?

Absolutely I do - it’s my favourite way of getting my stationery out into the world! You can find more information on the wholesale page of my website. 

For the full sent of FAQs head to this page.