Over the weekend I hosted afternoon tea with my lady friends to celebrate my newly decorated apartment. Having a gaggle of fashionable female playmates meant that the place was given a little extra styling attention courtesy of Marie from The Style Co.

I'm sure you have noticed, in fact I know that some of you have noticed because you've told me, that Lady M's couch disappeared from the blog for a while. Earlier in the year I packed up the manor and moved and it's taken me longer than expected to get my new place 'blog worthy.'

Whilst on my travels last week I visited the Valentino retrospective exhibition that was about to close at GOMA. There is a book that according to the website is out ...

Over the next couple of weeks I'll be showing you how I've been re-decorating my apartment and mostly it's been done on a budget. It's generally how I like to shop(with the odd luxury item thrown in) so hopefully you'll find some of my ideas inspiring. I'm no expert in this field, I've gone with what most people do when they're redecorating: choose what they like.