Field Notes Just Made Notebooks That Look Good Enough to Eat

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One thing that I’ve always shared when I do my journaling workshops is that this hobby is something that involves a lot of our senses: sight, sound, touch, sometimes even smell (if you have materials that have fragrance). The only one missing, really, is taste, since you probably don’t eat any of your journaling materials. This latest collection from stationery brand Field Notes is probably the closest we’ll get to tasting our notebooks, as they seem to be pretty and cool enough to eat.

Their 71st Quarterly Limited Edition for Summer 2026 is actually inspired by the iconic frozen fruit treats from Mexico called paletas. Each of the notebooks in the collection is designed to not just look but also feel like one of those popsicle flavors, in one of their most visually playful releases to date. Too bad they’re not actually edible, although you probably can slurp on a frozen treat while you’re using one of these pretty notebooks.

Designer: Field Notes

More than just a cool aesthetic, the brand really looked into the history of the paletas, telling the story of how this beloved frozen treat came to be. These frozen treats are actually made from real fruit and fresh ingredients, created by brothers Ignacio and Luis Alcázar and their cousin Agustín Andrade. They’ve become not just a tasty tradition but a cultural landmark, from their small town of Tocumbo, Michoacán, to Mexico City, and eventually reaching the U.S.

Each of the Field Notes notebooks (or, rather, Notas de Campo) has a combination of shiny gloss and frosty matte varnish, which gives them a texture that feels like you’re actually holding a paleta. There are nine “flavors,” each representing a specific paleta with its own color and personality, sold in three packs of three. Pack A has Chicle (Blue), Sandía (Red), and Queso Crema (White); Pack B has Piña (Yellow), Jamaica (Garnet), and Fresas con Crema (Pink); and Pack C has Limón (Green), Coco (White), and Mango con Chamoy (Red/Orange).

Inside, you get 48 pages of cream-colored dot-grid paper that you can use for note-taking, sketching, journaling, planning, or whatever it is you use notebooks for these days. Printing for this collection uses soy-based inks, which is perfect for sustainability-minded stationery lovers. There is a backing card illustration created by artist Atlan Arceo-Witzl, adding an artisan, handcrafted quality to the collection.

Each pack is priced at $14.95, making it easy to pick up just one flavor trio or go all in and collect all three. For subscribers, Field Notes sweetens the deal even further: you’ll receive the full set of all nine flavors, free U.S. shipping, 10% off on the site, and the special 2026 subscriber box beautifully designed by artist Jennifer Farrell of Starshaped Press. And if you want to display your paleta love on the wall, there are only 100 of the limited-edition Paletas Press Sheets available, showing all nine flavors together in one vibrant, poster-worthy print.

Whether you’re a longtime Field Notes collector, a journaling enthusiast, or simply someone who appreciates beautiful and thoughtfully designed objects, the Paletas edition is genuinely hard to resist. There’s something really special about a notebook that not only gives you a wonderful writing experience but also makes you smile just by looking at it, or, in this case, almost makes you want to take a bite.

And circling back to what I always say in my workshops: journaling is a deeply sensory experience. The Paletas collection somehow manages to hit almost all of them: the vivid, fruit-inspired colors that delight your eyes, the gloss-and-matte texture that begs to be touched, and the crisp sound of the pages as you turn them. The only sense still left out is taste, but that’s what an actual paleta in your other hand is for. Go grab yourself a pack and maybe a mango con chamoy while you’re at it.

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This 2,200-Piece LEGO Moth Kit Is Basically Taxidermy Without the Guilt

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Butterflies get all the credit. They show up on tattoos, greeting cards, and garden murals, while their nocturnal cousins get treated like the moment a moth flutters near your porch light is a minor household emergency. It is a genuinely lopsided reputation, because moths are just as varied and, frankly, just as beautiful, with wing patterns that range from delicate lace to full on gothic warning labels.

RiinaBuilds seems to agree, and has built a quiet rebuttal in brick form. Framed Moths gathers three real species, the eerie death’s-head hawkmoth, the pastel green Luna moth, and the crimson banded Glover’s silkmoth, and mounts each one in its own frame like a piece from a natural history collection. It is a small, focused idea, but the kind that makes you stop scrolling.

Designer: RiinaBuilds

What sells the whole set is that the frames are not interchangeable. Each one is designed to match the personality of the moth inside it, and that is where the build earns its keep as a piece of actual design thinking rather than just three insects glued to boards. The death’s-head hawkmoth gets a spiked, bat winged black frame that leans full Victorian gothic, appropriate for a moth whose skull shaped thorax marking made it a horror movie mainstay long before LEGO got involved (you have almost certainly seen it staring back at you from the Silence of the Lambs poster). The Luna moth sits in gilded baroque scrollwork that would not look out of place in a palace hallway, while the Glover’s silkmoth gets a warm, wood grain chevron frame, a nice touch given that silkmoth caterpillars spend their entire early lives eating the stuff.

None of these moths are actually glued down. Pop one loose from its backing board and you get a fully realized, freestanding insect, complete with legs, antennae, and a posed body, built to stand or be handled on its own. The frames themselves are doing serious structural work behind the scenes too, with a surprising density of brackets and pins bracing each moth at the correct wing angle, which explains why a set that reads as flat wall art actually adds up to around 2,200 pieces. The wings themselves are built from smooth, studless curves rather than jagged brick edges, letting those looping color bands read as organic rather than blocky, and each frame finishes with a small engraved nameplate in cursive script, bearing the moth’s proper Latin name like a specimen tag in a museum case.

Framed Moths is still early in its LEGO Ideas run, currently sitting at 135 supporters with 425 days left to hit the first major milestone of 1,000 supporters, the threshold that would push it further along the review pipeline. It is a slow climb, but a worthwhile one for anyone who has ever wanted actual taxidermy aesthetics on their wall without any of the ethical baggage. If you want to see these three make it to a real box set, you can head to the LEGO Ideas page and cast your vote here.

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This PlayStation Controller Sofa Was Built for Co-Op Gaming Marathons

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Sofas and game controllers are a match made in heaven. Nothing quite screams ‘relaxing gaming sesh’ like a vacant controller lying on an empty sofa, waiting to be picked up, only to be put down hours later. Meanwhile, you start a gaming session on your sofa seated, inching lower and lower till you’re practically laying down in a position only your spine understands (and contends with). Sofas and game controllers truly are an iconic duo… and Muddycap mashed them into the most brilliant piece of furniture any gaming den could ask for.

Meet the Controller Sofa, the name is self-explanatory, as are the visuals. Inspired by the DualShock controllers from yesteryears, Muddycap decided to make the most ultimate gaming furniture ever. It seats two, perfect for mano-a-mano or co-op gaming, and absolutely looks the part. The sofa features a massive D-pad on the left, action buttons on the right, joysticks at the bottom, while the grips double as legs. The entire thing in black, because you can’t wipe dorito-dust or wear week-old hoodies on white furniture.

Designer: Muddycap

Muddycap’s mind is a truly wonderful place, looking at any object and saying ‘will it sofa?’ Past attempts have included traffic lights, martini glasses, even a battery icon. Those are just on our blog – their IG page has even more attempts (1,117 to be precise). All of them have a signature visual template – a sofa against a fairly plain background, allowing the sofa’s design to do all the talking.

This one feels like it speaks to a very specific crowd, and my only real gripe with it is that it isn’t a real sofa – just a 3D model for now. That being said, Muddycap’s represented the controller with stunning detail. Apart from being slightly more horizontally elongated compared to other controllers (but that’s only to accommodate 2 people comfortably), every other detail is spot-on. Including even the trigger buttons at the back, which could be storage compartments if you ask me. Nothing elevates a game-controller-inspired sofa more than an ice box packed into its design, for a few cold sodas or brewskis while gaming!

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