{"id":1359,"date":"2006-01-19T00:43:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T08:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/01\/19\/illustration-friday-e-is-for-eyeglass-holder\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:45:10","slug":"illustration-friday-e-is-for-eyeglass-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/01\/19\/illustration-friday-e-is-for-eyeglass-holder\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustration Friday: E is for&#8230; Eyeglass Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/88508948\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/27\/88508948_6d7aaed47c.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"illustration friday: e is for... eyeglass holder\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>A common question that reverberates inside our home, particularly when I&#8217;m about to go out, is &#8220;Where are my eyeglasses?&#8221; I need them for driving and they help with reading, but when I&#8217;m at home I can function without them. They invariably end up: on a bookcase, on the hearth, on my nightstand, on the desk, on the kitchen table, on the bathroom sink, on and on and&#8230; Last weekend Husband pleaded with me to designate a spot in the house where I will put my glasses <em>all the time<\/em>. (It was more like an edict. He said the next time we&#8217;re about to go out and I can&#8217;t find my glasses, he&#8217;d leave without me. I know he wouldn&#8217;t, but that&#8217;s how desperate the poor man is, resorting to silly ultimatums.)<\/p>\n<p>I decided on the desk. To reduce the risk of the glasses being buried under junk mail, I would make a holder for them. I didn&#8217;t want to spend money, though. Free time is at a minimum this week, and energy isn&#8217;t abundant. I&#8217;d planned to collage a small cardboard box (similar to the one I made for my nightstand). Instead I settled for painting it a dark shade of green and using a stipple brush with metallic gold paint. Quick. Simple. Does the job with a little flair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common question that reverberates inside our home, particularly when I&#8217;m about to go out, is &#8220;Where are my eyeglasses?&#8221; I need them for driving and they help with reading, but when I&#8217;m at home I can function without them. They invariably end up: on a bookcase, on the hearth, on my nightstand, on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11013,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/11013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}