FLOCK Interiors

12/06/2026

Don’t forget the Bovey Tracey Craft Festival is on today through to Sunday folks.
Three unforgettable days of craft, creativity and community.

Less than 24 Hours to go! ⁠
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If you follow our stories, you will see that set up of Craft Festivel Bovey Tracey is nearly finished. The final touches are being made to the maker stands, ready for you to enjoy from tomorow at 10am.⁠
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Come and Meet over 200 makers.⁠
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📍 Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey⁠
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📅 June 12-14⁠
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📸 Clover Lee

12/06/2026

How is it Friday already? 🌿

This week seems to have disappeared in a blur of walks, creative projects, coffee catch-ups and garden jobs squeezed in between the showers.
It started with a mosaic workshop and then a visit from my sister and her husband, who came over with their poorly dog Max, currently waiting for surgery on a cruciate rupture.😒
We enjoyed homemade chilli, hummus and cheese scones (one of my make-it-up-as-I-go-along recipes!).

Work-wise, I’ve been helping solve a few interior design dilemmas during my two-hour surgery sessions and welcoming new students onto FLOCKS online course.
It’s always fascinating how a fresh pair of eyes can help unlock a solution.

The weather hasn’t been able to make up its mind, so I’ve been dashing in and out of the garden, transplanting plants, weeding the courtyard and starting to collect seeds and taking cuttings for next year.

The windowsills are now filling up with seed heads and hopeful new plants, which always feels exciting. 🌱

Ive also walked the park numerous times and visited a new haunt Bakers Park in Newton Abbot with a friend.
There’s something about a good walk, a decent coffee and a proper catch-up that makes everything feel a little brighter.

And in between it all, I’ve been getting ready for an upcoming Sip & Paint party, sorting materials, making plans and clearing the dining room studio ready for the evening.

Looking back, nothing particularly dramatic has happened this week, but it was full of creativity, conversations, growing things and small moments that somehow add up to a very full life. 😊
Has your week flown by too?

09/06/2026

A few spaces available on my 2hour style surgery next week.

If you’re having trouble with certain rooms, corners, or even small details, I have openings for my 2-hour style surgery starting next week.

Check it out here:

🌿 Style Surgery –
Affordable Interior Design Help

🌿 Unsure about which paint colour to pick? Can’t make up your mind on a sofa?
Need guidance on how to create a cohesive flow in your room?

My Style Surgery offers you 2 hours of tailored design advice for just £60.

Here’s how it works:✨
Send me some photos of your space and let me know what you need assistance with.

✨ I’ll provide a comprehensive phone consultation with clear, actionable suggestions.

✨ I’ll also share inspiring images or mini boards to help you visualise.

If you’re in the Torquay area, you can visit FLOCK, or I can come to your home (travel costs may apply).

💡 It’s a fantastic way to receive expert advice without the need to commit to a full design package.

📲 Message me to secure your spot — let’s work together to create a home you absolutely adore.

09/06/2026

Hello folks,
How’s everything going?
Yesterday, we finally finished our mosaic makes, and it was such a lovely catch-up with everyone.

We were all on good form, and it felt so nice to spend a few hours being creative together.

Over the weekend, I had a quick look back through the vision boards I’d created for 2026 and realised I’m actually making good progress on many of the things I’d hoped for which feels inspiring.✔️😃

One of my hopes was to spend more time doing creative things with friends, and I’m happy to say we are certainly ticking that one off.

My little mosaic pot is now complete, and next week we’ve got another evening planned with a sip-and-paint gathering at mine. 🎉🥳🍾🥂it should be real fun.🤣

There’s something wonderfully freeing about spending an evening chatting, laughing, enjoying a few nibbles and a glass or two of something bubbly, while creating something without worrying whether it’s “good enough”. It’s not really about the finished painting at all. It’s about giving yourself permission to play, experiment and enjoy the process. I found the mosaic project very much the same.

As I’ve got older, I’ve realised how important creativity is. Not because everything has to become a masterpiece, but because making things helps us slow down, express ourselves and see the world a little differently.

Maybe that’s one of the reasons I love interiors so much too.

Creating a home you love isn’t about following trends; it’s about understanding what brings you joy, comfort and inspiration, and then bringing more of that into your everyday surroundings and that’s exactly what I endeavour to help people discover through my online interior design programme.🧑‍🎨🏡 ❤️

Have a lovely day everyone, the suns shining here in the valley and why not make some time today to create something, just for the joy of it.
It doesn’t have to be perfect. ❤️ x

04/06/2026

🌦️ Morning folks!

A little tip and a little muse for this Thursday morning...

I was supposed to be visiting my cousin today, but the weather has had other ideas. She has the most wonderful cottage garden and I was really looking forward to escaping into it for a few hours, but with the rain forecast we’ve decided another day will be much better.

Talking of rain... haven’t we had some! We certainly have here in Devon. The good news is that all this wet weather creates perfect conditions for sowing seeds directly into the ground.

One flower that’s guaranteed to give you months of colour right through summer is the Californian poppy. They were absolutely everywhere at Chelsea Flower Show this year, so if you’re following the trends, now’s your chance! Simply scatter the seeds where you want them to grow and they’ll reward you with masses of silky blooms from early summer right into autumn. They’re easy, cheerful and loved by pollinators too.

This photo is a bank of them in the park and I think they look absolutely glorious.

I know I’ve said that I don’t really bother with annuals, but I’m having to make a little exception and buy a few that self seed this year…my plan is to let them drop their seeds so they come back on their own next year, then I can enjoy them without the effort!

On another note, I’ve had a lovely influx of interior design enquiries recently. It always makes me smile because I sometimes spend so much time talking gardens and plants on here that people forget interior design is actually my part time job!

I’m certainly not complaining though. Helping people create homes they love is one of my favourite things to do, and it reminds me of something I always drummed into my son: do what you love and it will never really feel like work.❤️

Have a lovely Thursday everyone, whatever the weather! ☔🌼

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02/06/2026

Good Morning folks 🌿
A lovely bit of rain came yesterday which has perked the borders and pots up no end. 😃

A little tip today….

A couple of years back, my sister was saying that she never buys those bags of salad leaves from the supermarket. Instead, she grows rocket in pots and just nips outside to pick what she needs. I think she does a bit of sowing every few weeks to keep it going, but whatever she’s doing seems to work because she’s got fresh leaves all summer long.

At the time I remember thinking that was pretty clever, and since then I’ve become a bit of a convert myself.
Which brings me neatly onto my Tuesday tip ... leaves! 🥬

If you’re still buying those bags of salad leaves from the supermarket, it might be worth giving this a go.
Back in early May, I potted up some cut-and-come-again salad leaves and they’re still producing enough greenery to keep me happily munching away weeks later.

Compare that to a supermarket bag that costs a few pounds, comes wrapped in plastic, and has a habit of turning into a soggy yellow mess at the back of the fridge before you’ve finished it.
Growing your own means you can pick exactly what you need when you need it. No waste, no plastic packaging, and you know exactly what’s gone into growing them.
It’s honestly one of the easiest things you can grow.
A pot, a bit of compost, some water now and then, and you’ve got your own little salad bar sitting outside the back door.

A few tips for June sowing:
🌱 Sow little and often rather than all at once for a steady supply.
🌤 Give pots a bit of shade during the hottest part of the day.
💧 Keep watering regularly as containers dry out quickly in warm weather.
✂️ Pick the outer leaves and leave the middle growing for that lovely cut-and-come-again harvest.
🥬 Fresh, economical, less plastic and surprisingly productive.

These salad leaves have been earning their keep since early May. Can your supermarket bag say the same?
Any good garden centre will have them. These were purchased from .
Have a great Tuesday folks. 😉

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01/06/2026

Hi folks,

What a busy, sunny weekend in Torquay! With the airshow overhead and the bay packed with visitors, it certainly felt like summer had arrived.

Now that No Mow May is over, I’m keen to bring a little structure back to the grass area. My plan is to cut the top section where it stays dark and damp (and seems to be a tick hotspot), add a few pathways through it, but keep a central meadow area along with the ox-eye daisies behind the terrace border. Hopefully it’s the best of both worlds plenty of flowers and wildlife, while giving the dog somewhere to enjoy without coming back covered in ticks and grass seeds!

Talking of low-maintenance gardening, (which I’m working on)! one of my favourite tricks is growing plants that self-seed. Plant them once and they’ll often return year after year with very little effort.

Some of my favourites are:

🌿 Borage
🌸 Cosmos (although they can be slightly difficult)
🌺 Nasturtiums
🌹 Poppies
💙 Cornflowers
🦊 Foxgloves
💜 Love-in-a-Mist (Nigella)
🦋 Verbena bonariensis
🌼 Ox-eye Daisy
🌱 Quaking Grass

Top tip: Leave spent flower heads standing through autumn so they can scatter their seeds naturally and create next year’s display for free.

So, what’s your approach now that May is over? Are you reaching for the mower, keeping things wild, or trying to find a balance between the two?

I’m all for keeping things wild 🤣

A mix of 📷 from my garden and a few courtesy of Crocus, a great plant supplier.

Happy Monday. 😃💐🌹🌱

29/05/2026

Look away now if you’re not a rose fan! 🌹😂

Up early again this morning taking the dog for a wander before it gets too hot and I made a beeline for the parks rose garden because I knew all the roses would be flowering and wow, they really are incredible.

The scent in the muggy air was heady and sweet you definitely don’t need perfume, you just walk through and get completely wrapped up in all those gorgeous heady rose fragrances.

I’ve taken photos of a few of my favourites, although I could easily have photographed hundreds more! If you love roses, you really should go and have a look while they’re looking so beautiful.

Last pic is one of mine!

A few years ago the whole garden had to be dug up and completely replanted as part of a huge restoration project, and lots of the roses were supplied by Beales Roses. King Charles visited too when he was Prince of Wales, which was lovely for Cockington.

Anyway, enough rose rambling from me 😂🌹

Hope you all have a lovely day whatever you’ve got planned 🐾

28/05/2026

A fab exhibition definitely worth a visit….

28/05/2026

Just to say…I haven’t abandoned interiors entirely…🤫🧑‍🎨

I’m still teaching my online interior course, I’ve just become temporarily distracted by slugs and snails, foxgloves and wild things! 🌿

Sharing a little corner of this morning’s garden room because technically, it is an interior.

Link to the course here:

If you fancy joining me ✨❤️

https://www.craftcourses.com/courses/5-week-interior-decor-course-with-weekly-one-to-one-consultations