and on it goes
Ok, I am writing this to you on a new computer. Quicken Essentials took my Mac down, completely. It inserted it self everywhere like the worst of viruses.
I spent 18 hours trying to clear it out of my time machine back-ups. It took that long to erase half a million files.
Then I searched for it everywhere on my mac. No sign of it.
I re-installed Quicken 2007 (what genus thought up Quicken Essential, she wonders and why make it so simplistic and so virulent?) and re-entered all my bank account information since 1/1/2011 and all my investment info (buys going back to 2001 in some cases, where I still own the security).
it took hours but I got it done. So, I closed Quicken and re-opned it to check. Somehow Quicken Essentials (which I erased completely, I thought) grabbed it and began to convert it but there was not a conversion program there anymore but it would not let go.
I cried for a while and then K looked at my computer. It is/was an older one and I had already been having some issues with it so I made the decision to buy a new iMac.
Off we go to the Mac store and we get this nice little girl as a salesperson. The problem was, I knew a lot more about Macs then she did (I have been using Apple since before there were Macs. Remember Apple 2 or Mac Classic, that little guy with the green screen?
She sold me the wrong cable to attach my iMacs to do the transfer and K refused to go to Radio Shack at 8pm Saturday night (go figure) so I had to do the switch with little flash drives.
Maybe that was better, no QE could slip over this way but it also meant I had to re-register and re-set up almost all my programs.
Then (TA-DA) the new mac would not load Quicken 2007.
AWK
So I am using something called iBank for Macs. The reviews are all good, " They " all say it is the best out there but I am finding it hard to make it work the way I want it to.
Loading was OK but it just does not do "it" the way I want it to.
I am going to strip my old iMac, all the way and re-install the operating system. I hope this cures it. There is always someone who wants my old macs and I am glad to give them to people who need them.
I have loaded me and 1 of the 4 Trust Accounts I run into iBank. I have a headache.
Note to Karen: you were absolutely right. I began The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo again and read right through it. What a gripping book, you just need to get past the first few pages.
I have DLed the next one (forget the title). I love my iPad. The screen is backlit (unlike the Kindle) so I turn off the lights and read in the dark, by the iPad's light. I find I am sleeping better. I used to wake myself up when I "woke" to turn off the lights. Now I drift off to sleep seamlessly and the iPad goes to sleep in 10 minutes.
OK, This computer disaster has consumed my whole attention (and neurosis) for days now. I did not do anything or go anywhere this weekend, except to buy this. We were home by 1pm.
I have books to list, new canvases to list, I know and I feel the pressure. Plus I have to start tax stuff when the 1099s start to arrive for me & the trusts.
BTW, I do not like my new computer. It does not act like a Mac. I can't highlight stuff to delete it. I have to place the cursor and backspace. Double clicks do not open programs, you have to right click to see an "open" thing and then left click it.
I am frustrated and not the most pleasant person in the world right now (understatement alert)
a day like yesterday
We all have terrible days, it is a fact of life (cliche’ alert) but yesterday was a doozy.
We were in the middle of a big snowstorm, which was pretty, there is something about the silence of falling snow that I love. I got the pictures taken for all my new book listings.
It was very cold in the basement rooms where I have my photo studio so I bundled up. I was hardly your image of a hot photographer in my flannel nightgown with a pink sweatshirt over it and huge fuzzy socks.
Ok, then I set to finish an annoying financial software problem I have been having.
As you might know, besides being myself I am the financial trustee for “the next generation” of our family. I handle their investments etc.
I have used Quicken software for this since the beginning. I have many years of data stored in my computer and my time machine backup.
Ok, There has been no update since Quicken 2007 so when Quicken Essentials came out I bought a copy. I installed it on my mac but never opened it.
I began to read BAD reviews about it, how it was useless to an investor that it was meant to mostly do day-to-day home finance.
Ok, so I just left it there and went on using Q2007.
One day I went to open my Q file and it would not let me, it insisted I convert it to Quicken Essentials.
I called Intuit (maker of quicken) and they said there was no way to stop it short of removing Q Essential from my mac. I did this but it was too late.
Essentials had *tainted” my Quicken 2011 files, my Quicken 2009 files and 2 of my trust accounts. All my quicken files going back to pre-history.
It had also reached into my backups and tainted them all there, so there was no hope of restoring (but I did not know this until later)
I FREAKED. I can rebuild most of my investment info from the Brokerage websites but my checks, payments & charges since forever were gone.
The trust accounts had to be re-built from scratch.
So, I began to rebuild in Quicken 2007. I had removed all the Q essentials program from my mac (I thought) and spend 4 hours rebuilding my account.
I got it done, saved it and went to open it to check all was well.
TA DA! It had converted itself to Q Essentials from my backup files. All my work was lost.
So, this morning I have to erase all my time machine backups, to remove Quicken E and try again.
Then, last evening I decided to update all my new book purchases before I edited the pictures, so I could list them at the correct prices.
K converted my huge used book records on Microsoft Word to Excel, making it possible to alphabetize them.
Before I had to scroll through many pages to find a book price. This worked so well I had him do my much smaller NewBook records as well.
I went to add all the new books and found all the excel records were garbled, all the right prices were there (more or less) but they were in the wrong places.
I re-did the whole file and saved it.
It reverted to the same garbled version.
AWKKKKKKKKKKKKK
by this time I was crying.
Keith came into my office and did something to Excel and told me to save it by a new name, everytime I changed it.
Ok, that seemed to work so I corrected it again.
By then it was midnight and I was emotionally wrung out. Exhausted.
I am not much of a drinker but I made myself a nice Chambord & Soda (you can tell by what I love to drink) and went to bed with my iPad.
The drink knocked me out and here it is another day and I have to try again to get my financials in order.
Yes, the books are sitting here and waiting. Yes, I feel stuck in some kind of evil limbo.
Ok, reading (happy note at last). On my ipad I am reading American Rose by former journalist Karen Abbott. It is about Gypsy Rose Lee but far from a haigiogrphy.
It also goes deeply into the entertainment industry of her times and the economy’s effect on it.
Well, wish me luck. I am going to try this all again
less is more
I love cliche’s. They cover every occasion, no need to think or be creative in any way. Just insert the appropriate cliche’ and you’re good to go (yes, another one).
I have lowered the prices on some (not all) of the canvases & kits in my Clearance Sale Category.
Now I am priced below (AWK) my wholesale price and the free shipping is my gift to you (someone stick a fork in me, I’m done).
I did not mark down all of them. A few of the Danji Design canvases are worth what I am asking for them (and more).
I am not doing a 2nd markdown on my Patt & Lee designs. I think the sale ones are well worth what I am asking for them
I am, this week I hope, going to begin listing all the new, new books and the few new rare books I have. Now that my sale is in place, I am ready to move on.
Look for category changes, consolidating the remaining needlepoint canvas & kit categories and adding a few specific categories (like a stand alone Laurel Burch category).
I am expanding the books categories. All cross stich books will be in their own category with cross categorization for needlepoint books which also cover cross stitch (many of them).
Ok, to the meat and potatoes of this blog (see, 4 cliche’s so far). Here is a random sampling of the items I have further marked down. And not just a dollar or 2. These are real 2nd markdowns.
That’s just some of them. The ones I think might hook you into coming to my web store and looking around
I am still reading Charlotte Bronte’s Vilette. I am on page 600ish of 750ish. It has been good for me to read this. About 6% of the book is written in French with no translation.
When I was in grade school (the try this program mad 1950s) I was part of a test group. They began us in French (which is a more or less a useless language now, better it had been Spanish or Chinese) in 1st grade and we had it until 6th grade. The again in High School.
The result is I can still read French (more or less). I can not reasonably speak or understand it but I can read it. This has been good practice.
Villette is an interesting book, much overlooked by the Wuthering Heights crowd. It is from the point of view of a private, shy and introspective young lady. Surprising how much happens to her while nothing happens to her.
K had a fun 50th birthday, it was fun for me too. His freakout has passed for now.
m finally goes nuts
Ok, this is it. I have lost it big time.
I am sitting here drooling over a muted sage green OSTRICH leather Hermes Kelly bag that is for sale, on the used bag market.
I love buying bags this way ( and the more current regular way too). I mostly do ok but sometimes not.
Today I received a Carlos Falchi Real Snakeskin small bag that I bought last week, lined in leather with both a long & a short attached handle.
I bought this bag from Cara Chell, who sells Vintage Bags from easystreetantiques.com on-line.
It looked perfect on line and was described as “mint condition”. I was taking a picture of it to show here and look what I saw in the photo. I had not seen this before, my regular house lights were too low (and I was too excited to look carefully)
the front, lower down
The worst, the bottom.
Oh well, no more bags from Cara Chell.
I bought this wonderful summer bag a few months ago (from another dealer on line). It is a Moon Bag from Patricia Smith designs. It is just wonderful but I am blown away by the way the needlepoint and the plastic top clasp fit together.
I am told these bags were a big deal, some time ago (no idea when)
Still, despite the sometimes disappointments, The Kelly Bag
This is from a very trustworthy dealer, Barbara of BagAmbition.com in Chicago.
I have been consigning my “fashion bags” to Barbara for a few years now, when I do not want/carry them anymore. She does business honestly, as do I, and gets results. We have done very well together. (or I make a bag mistake, it sometimes happens)
She has this Kelly Bag. It appears to be new, although it is not. It still has everything it came with including a original purchase receipt & lots more.
She wants a lot of money for it. It is worth it except maybe it is worth less because of it’s color. I know it looks black here, it is not. It is a muted sage green.
I love the color but many people would not. Hermes bags do not usually stay on Barbara’s web site long. A Black Birkin bag was gone almost overnight.
Oh, we had a snow/ice storm here, it was a good day to hunker down at home. I did a bunch of financial work (awk).
I have a pile of new books almost 2 feet hight I need to process & list.
I found one more (the very last) Canvas for my web store sale. I have had this graphic Susan Treglown in my closet, in my own canvases box, forever. It even has the original ST threads list attached.
Remember: NewNeedlepoint.com (had to get at least one link in)
I hope to have this & the books listed by the middle of next week.
I could not get more then 4 chapters into Steig Larsson’s 1st book, but I will try again.
I DLed Charlotte Bronte’s Villette. So far, it is slow going and I do not much like the tiny girl (get my boots).
Anyway, I adore the iPad, I get books now with a few clicks and the lit screen and adjustable font size are perfect.
My only complaint (you knew I would have 1) is that the page turning motion does not always work, sometimes you have to do it twice.
This could, of course, be operator error.
So, somebody, please, pull me (kicking & screaming) back into reality land where ladies like me (ie: everybody, mostly) do not have or need Hermes bags
marianne drops the ball
Things are humming along with my BIG once-in-a-lifetime Clearance sale. I suspect I am selling more full price canvases & kits then sale items.
For this I am both grateful and amazed (not so hard to manage both at once, really..imagine me with a dumb look of happy shock on my face. Then again I have not showed myself here, yet, so imagine me the way you usually do and then paste the look on my face. Don’t forget the dropped jaw, drool is your option.
I had an order from a customer who has bought from me before, twice no less (as I smile happily some more). So, this lovely lady places a very nice order with me for 3 sale canvases.
This amazing handpainted Daffodil
The striking Colorful Cabbage canvas
and this wonderful retro Christmas Cats by Patt & Lee.
I thought I had shipped this order but it must have fallen through the cracks (in my brain).
I was going through the canvases, getting out ones that I needed to get ready for shipping when I found the Colorful Cabbages canvas (I keep them all hung flat on skirt hangers in a closet. This keeps them very nicely, much better then piling them up)
I freaked and assumed I had sent this customer’s package without this canvas. How I did that I had no idea but I assumed I had.
Did I think to look further, to see if the other 2 were still here?
Nope, I shipped Cabbages the next day.
So, today I am going through the hanging canvases to find the one I sold today: This is a Beginner’s Kit I call Shower Cat, the design is by Patt & Lee The beginner’s kits still include color placement directions and my own Needlepoint Beginners Book. My book, tiny as it is, is all about the many things I did not know when I began to stitch, the simple stuff everyone assumes everyone else already knows. Plus very basic stitch graphs from the great web site *stitchopedia* (used with the site owner’s permission).
It was bought as a kit and I have more of them.
Side note: this is a exclusive adaptation of one of Patt’s very successful designs. She & I worked it so the design would be easy to for a novice to stitch.
This is the original of the design, where we started:
Superior Stitching by Patt
But I have digressed from my original topic (indeed, I have taken a full left turn).
So, needless to say, I found both the Daffodils canvas and Christmas Cats all hung up nice and neat, just where they belong.
I have written another apologetic email to the customer. She was good natured about the first email when I….you know.
She is going to think I am a total flake now (and how wrong is she. really?)
I will send them out Monday. I can’t believe I did this.
This has only happened to me once before in a different way. I had a huge order, biggest I have ever had, so far, but I did not realize there was a second page of items, so I shipped just the “first page”.
I got a (deserved) angry email and sent the rest of the order along with a small token gift (ok, maybe not so small, it was a pair of scissors).
This was soon after I opened NewNeedlepoint.com and I over reacted.
This time it will just be a nice note clarifying that I messed up and saying sorry.
I suppose my first offense was worse. This order is not 2 weeks old yet.
Anyway…I got my iPad up and running. In addition to my iBooks app, I also downloaded the amazon Kindle books app too and bought my first book.
It is Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I will start it soon, I fell back into the Amanda Quick reading valley but I expect it to be a 1 book relapse (I must admit it is fun, light reading).
Hubby turns 50 on Thursday. He is freaked. I am not, since I am 60. I do not view this as such a big deal.
He does. He has no idea.
a week in
My Clearance sale is going very well. I have sold some wonderful designs. Among the solds are these:
and all three Rosewood Laying Tools I had.
I have also sold 2 of Patt & Lee’s excellent Stash Tread designs, at full price (YES)
I have a few more to add today.
These 3 are printed canvases. This one is not printed that well but it is a nice subject. I have kitted this using Paternayan Wools for the buildings & night sky, DMC #5 Perle Cotton Floss for the details and Kreinik Metallic Gold and Metallic White for the angels.
These 2 are printed very well. Both would work as Scrap Thread designs or can be stitched using the wonderful colors in the designs.
Plus the big Iris canvas is being posted but not as a kit. I did not have enough shades of purple to kit this design.
and this pretty design, kitted with Paternayan Wool.
I am in process of setting up my new iPad, I have finally read all my new “paper” books and I am ready to begin reading ebooks. Set up is easy (if you are not me). This is my 2nd day at it.
BTW, I finished Frances Burney’s Evelina. If you can manage it, with all the archaic speeches and protestations, it is a wonderful and romantic book with excellent villains (a good villain or 2 makes a story).
I think I shall collapse into a pool of quivering jello when I have finished today and try to solidify over the weekend.
interesting
my sale is hopping along. I am selling some not-for-sale canvases as well as a number of books (also not marked down).
This amazing, I listed this printed canvas last night (Monday)
and it sold today.
I did not remove the “color placement guide included text” from all the sale listings. The first buyer from the sale emailed me that there was no guide included. I have apologized for not correcting the text before she bought.
However, I can’t correct this, once a one-of-a-kind kit is gone, I have no way to create a color placement guide.
All the sale listings text are now fixed and correct.
I went searching for more book using Jane’s email as a guide. I had some success and some not,
Tanja Berlin books are all in German, I can’t even read the titles.
I did find the absolutely perfect book:
1. How to Shade Embroidered Flowers and Leaves So as to Produce Natural and Artistic Effects; Also, Studies in Conventional Designs as Adapted to Needle-Work. Illustrated With Coloured Plates and Engraved Patterns, Hardcover (1888.)
by Smith, Ellen Galusha
It turns out Mrs. Smith was a notable person and known as “the poet of Peoria”.
The down side is the price. The lowest I found was $89. for a miserable condition copy. The highest is $325 from a reputable antique bookseller.
I can get you a copy of this, as a prepaid order, or just do a name search and you will find sellers of this book.
I am still messing with these wool threads. The way I began to sort them is wrong, a real mess. I am starting over however this time I am going to do it not at my desk. I am spread out all over my bed and am watching season 6 of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Yes, the clothes are dated and sometimes her hair is just awful but the show is a good as I remembered.
Sadly, I did not find the re-runs of Rhoda’s show to be as pleasing.
Not a bad thing to do on a snowy night.
I have placed a new order for Laurel Burch Handpainted needlepoint designs. The only one of these I have had before is this one, these fine dogs decorated with butterflies.
You may not remember it, it sold a while ago.
The only non-LB canvas(es) I bought were 2 more of this fine Snowman” Christmas Tree Ornament from Gail Lang. I sold 2 of these, so far, and I think they will be good for next holiday season, as well. So I went overboard and bought 2.
I never (almost) buy more then 1 of each design except with Patt & Lee’s stuff. There I buy multiples of the designs that sell well
Like Geisha Cat, this is a wonderful design and has been very successful. This is a special custom version of the design that Patt made for NewNeedlepoint.com. The Kanji actually does say Geisha. In the other version, it does not say anything, just a nice shape.
Or Pirate Cats, which was recently and very creatively stitched by Jane on her Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure Blog
Or, of course, Patt & Lee’s Scrap Thread Design canvases, I keep mulitiples of them on hand, they sell & sell & sell. I think it is a terrific idea.
Ok, as promised here are Jane’s Suggestions for area of Needlework I might want to carry books for. This is wonderful research, Jane always amazes me.
Let me explain stumpwork. It is a traditional type of stitching, very popular in the Queen Elizabeth 1 era. It is raised and padded stitching, very 3-D. Jane Nichols is the master of it, with a lot of great books on how to do it. Needlepointers do this a little bit but it is of more interest to the counted thread stitchers.
http://www.prettyimpressivestuff.com/stumpwork.htm
Whitework is very specialty handwork. I’d not get any books on it yet. SharonG has a new book coming out. You’ll want to get copies of it, I think.
http://sharongneedlepointdesigner.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-gave-birth.html
The new trend in Needlepoint is to add beads, Swarkowski crystals, and ribbons to needlepoint canvases. Look for Sundance’s little book on beads (it’s a pamphlet really)
http://www.sundancedesignsonline.com/index.php
the River Silks ribbon book (not a great book but useful and it comes with a needle, piece of canvas and some ribbons to practice stitches with),
http://www.riversilks.com/oooooh.html
and the hotfix tool that is a little hot iron wand that activates the glue on the flat back of the crystals
http://chillyhollowneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2009/03/hot-fix-swarovski-crystals.html
I own the Joelle brand one which is very nice.
http://www.firemountaingems.com/details.asp?PN=H203429TL
I have ordered more new books since yesterday. I am trying to find books Jane has recommended, with mixed results.
Oh well, back to my mountain of wool and MTM.
more sale
It is easier to write a blog post when you actually have something tangible to discuss. This explains why I have done so many of them recently.
I added another canvas today to my clearance sale, it was hidden way, way back in my closet and I had forgotten about it.
It is an interesting printed design I call Colorful Cabbages.
The printing is not the best but I think the amazing colors and design somewhat makes up for this.
The design will needs lots of Shading Stitches. I am not all that good at this. There are so few books on this subject alone out there.
Shading and Thread Blending Techniques by June McKnight
The best, and more or less the only. But I search on.
I am amazed, now that I look for them, how few needlepoint books address the subject of shading & blending.
I looked at some of my best rare/used general needlepoint guide books, like Fanny Highsmith’s wonderfully named “The Ups & Down of Needlepoint” and she does not mention shading.
I looked at some of the books by my favorite authors, again general books, not stitch or specific design books.
Margaret Boyles has 2 books on just needlepoint (not Bargello) and she does not mention shading.
Margaret River’s Batsford Published “Working on Canvas” while it mentions “superimposed stitches” does not mention blending or shading.
My last resort is Mary Rhodes (as always). First I tried “Needlepoint”.
Then I tried her book “Ideas for Canvas Work”. It has been a very popular book here on NewNeedlepoint.com. Yes, the book mentioned *shading* but one index reference to the work was in the introduction, there were 2 pictures where some shading was used and the last reference was the word “shading” in the index (not kidding, the index referred me to itself).
Hope Hanley’s “The Craft of Needlepoint” was a big zero on shading. I also discovered I never did list it (ooops).
My last try is “Needlepoint and Beyond” by Edith Anderson Feisner. This book has a whole 4 page chapter on Shading. Good for Ms Feisner.
I think my next obsessive search will be for more books on Shading & Blending Threads but enough of that for now.
I have 2 more canvases to list for my sale. Both are large, one is 13 mesh, a whole field of Iris, handpainted by Danji Design.
The other is 12 mesh, it is a wreath of handsome deep pink flowers with a large center of blooms. The greens are in shades of Olive green which makes it very striking and somewhat unusual. I have had this canvas forever, another resident of the back of my closet. I know it is handpainted (clearly) I have no idea by whom.
and a closeup of the center
Both of these, being larger mesh, need kitting with wool or DMC #3. Since I do not stock DMC #3, wool it is.
I kitted the Iris canvas with Paternayan Needlepoint Wool. Since I am in the process of selling off my stock of wool, I used enormous amounts of it for this kit, so the buyer would not, could not, run out (and I would have no more wool). There is probably more than double the amount needed in this kit.
I have done the same thing for the Pink Wreath design. I just have to photograph the wools and then list them (tomorrow?).
So, I am still reading Frances Burney’s Evelina. This pitiful young lady, with good manners and tender sensibilities, has suffered through more rudeness and inappropriate and “coming” behavior than you would have thought possible.
Of course, being very beautiful does not help. I am 3/4 of the way through the book and have hope her hero will “step-up” and rescue her.
A very different world. We are expecting a biggish snow storm so I braved the manic crowds at Costco, intrepid soul that I am. It was not easy.
done (for now)
I have marked down the Patt & Lee Designs canvases & kits that I still have. As I mentioned, I sent quite a few of them to a trunk show they are doing in Arizona in February. It helps to have more to show and I have/had a very large stock of Patt & Lee designs.
What is not included in the sale is most of Patt’s Scrap Threads Designs. They have been solid sellers for me and I believe in Patt’s Concept. I think the idea of designs specially made to use up the massive amounts of *extra threads, yarns etc* we all have is a great one.
Although Patt uses color for the designs, the point is you use what you have, with some good judgement & taste (which we all have, of course) the finished product will be fine.
Below is a sampling of the P&L I have for sale
There is more in the Sale Category
Despite what I said earlier, I have included a few tools in my sale.
The books are not on sale, interestingly I have sold 4 books (3 new, 1 rare used) since the sale began along with a good number of kits. So far everyone is buying the kits, not the canvases alone. It makes sense, you are getting the threads for the canvases close to free.
I know, I know, I need to lighten my inventory. Not only for cash purposes but we all know another move is coming up, maybe as early as next summer.
This sale has consumed me for a while now. I will begin to list some of the new books I have received in this time.
I am thinking of other stitch “areas” to go into in my book collections. I asked some advice (as usual) from Jane, the mistress and master stitchtress of The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure Blog.
I will ask Jane’s permission to quote her answer here in my blog, she put a lot of work and thought (and links) into it.
My good friend Patt of Patt & Lee Designs has a blog as well, it is interesting, as is her design work.
2 blogs ago she said it was her last blog. I hope not. I tried to respond to that but her blog thingie would not let me. (she probably has me on a do-not-blabb-endlessly list or something. If you want to post to it, this is the link:
http://www.pattandleedesigns.blogspot.com/
She has the best blog background I have ever seen.
Yes, I am still reading. Currently Francis Burney’s Evalina. Published in the 1778 it is also in the form of letters but this book is sparkling and witty and fun. I am really enjoying it.
It is one of the last of the new *paper* books I have. I suppose I should finally set up my new iPad. I have no idea why I hesitate, it is a Mac thing and I have been a Mac user since before they were called Macs. (remember Apple Computers? Apple 2, Lisa etc)
My son told me his blended easily and seamlessly into his Mac set up. It practically did it all by itself.
So, it is cold here, snow due this week but nothing like what they are getting in the south and is due in New England. This area seems to be a moderate climate, cold but not terrible or hot but not unbearable with long lovely springs & falls.
I wonder where we will go next? I have asked to live close to my son. Best would be a “Regional Position” where we can mostly live where we want (as long as it is near a major airport).
Are you listening down there in South Carolina (where K’s employer is based). Probably not, I doubt they know about my silly little bog (I enjoy it so).
p.s.
This is the Cat Condo I bought for Jack The Cat. It is a real tree trunk with silk leaves and the carpet lining the platforms is attached with velcro so they can be removed for cleaning (what’s not to like).
This is proof positive that a fool and her money are easily parted.
Jack, in the rare moments he is awake, likes it (photo taken before he got his heated cat bed) when my duvet was good enough.
