Today as I was perusing the op-ed section of the New York Times the People magazine website, I noticed a blurb that skinny jeans may be on the way out. Apparently photographers have captured Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, and some girl I’m supposed to know because she’s on The O.C., only I’ve never watched that particular program, and all three girls have worn their flared boot-cut jeans in the last week or so. People is speculating that the end of the skinny jean trend is near, and for that reason I think we all need to put an extra fiver in the collection plate this Sunday, cheerfully giving an offering above our tithe to THANK THE LORD ABOVE that we’re done with the straightleg jean for another five or ten years.
You can’t even imagine how relieved I am.
If the end-of-skinny-jeans news wasn’t enough, this afternoon I found a pair of sconces that my cousin Paige gave me a few years ago. I’m planning to hang them above the fireplace (with a painting in between), and I think they’re ever-so-much fun. Here’s a picture of one of them:
See? Told you.
Anyway, I was trying to figure out exactly where to place the sconces, and I sat one down one of them down on the hearth so that I could do a little measuring. When I leaned down to pick it up, this is what I saw on the back:
Of course they are.
Now I love them even more.
In completely random news, I would now like to show you a picture of the cutest box of Kleenex I’ve ever seen.
Now y’all. Is that not adorable? I practically squealed with delight in Publix.
It takes so little, really.
When reading the first paragraph of this post, I glanced at the picture of the sconce. I thought that it was an example of how the skinny jeans look on most people!
I will now have a moment of silence in honor of the blessing that is the end of skinny jeans.
The company that sells the sassy wall sconces used to sell a red sassy stool. I think you need the complete collection! How sassy would that be?
Oh goodness!!! I was at a Southern Living At Home show tonight and they have the sassy sconce on sale for a great price! Oh so sassy — just like you!
Glad to know the scoop on the skinny jean going out! Thank goodness–they are just not flattering AT ALL!
Love the sassy sconces!
Now, do you get a commission on the sassy tissue boxes? I mean, it’s obvious you had the idea first, right? ;-)
that tissue box is so YOU!
Thank you, thank you, for the end of the skinny jean. I was really hoping that the skinny jean would actually make me look skinny and was shocked to find out they did not. :) They aren’t even flattering on skinny people. And, I love the Sassy Sconces. And the oh so cute box of kleenex. I love to get pretty kleenex boxes myself. Have a great day!
OH.GOOD.GLORY….the sconce is indeed a picture of what straight jeans look like on me! And yes, it is sasssy, and yes, said company did indeed have a sassy red stool, but the sconce and the stool are going the way of the straight leg jean….but not because they are not sassy or classy. THEY still are, just not the jeans! Wonder if they will be coming out with something NEW to add to the SASSY collection? I”ll keep my eye out for you, and let you know. Because we all KNOW you are the QUEEN of Sassy, Boomama!!! Show us pics of your sassy sconces once your sassy self has placed them on your sassy walls. ;-)
Oh, and I do love your sassy Kleenex box…was that commissioned just for you?
I thought the sconce was a straight leg jeans illustration too. ;) But not when I saw the wording under the bar code. Because straight leg jeans and sassiness just don’t go in the same sentence together.
You know, I was pretty young during the height of the zippers-at-the-ankle-jeans days, but still old enough to remember the horror of it. I thought I was seeing the horror of all horrors, though, when I walked into Kohl’s recently and saw on the first rack three different colors of those shirt-leotards with the snaps on the bottom. Intended, I guess, to keep the “shirts” tucked in in the high waists of the taper leg jeans. I may have only been four years old, but I wore those, and I was stylin’. But four year old have a pretty hard time undoing the snaps every time the go to the bathroom, so my vote is to NOT bring them back!
Down with skinny jeans! I never thought I would have an excuse to be thankful for Paris Hilton, but I guess this is it.
Hip, hip hooray for the demise of skinny jeans. I never could wear them and now that I’ve had 3 kids, I’m beginning to resign myself to my hips never being the same again. And I just clicked over to your sassy pants post and laughed out loud. Too funny!
Love the Kleenex box! My favorite, though, is the full-sized pink box covered in Disney Princesses.
Okay, I finally broke down and bought my first pair of skinny jeans last month and I was pretty happy with the look (by the way Daisy Fuentes at Kohl’s has skinny jeans that fit women with hips)and now you tell me they are on their way out! I don’t know if I can recover. I do happen to love your sconces. I have one (not two) and display it on it’s side (lying down) on a shelf in my entertainment center. I wanted to add touches of red in my family room and it looks great!
Oh my gosh you just made me miss Publix lol Here in Oklahoma we don’t have things like Winn Dixie or Publix..I am shopping at a place named after toothpaste! That just seems wrong:-P
Hi,
I saw you on Musings of a Housewife, add me to your tens of people daily, you’re funny.
I love your “about me”. :-)
Have a great day in your non-skinny jeans, hanging fabulous wall sconces!
Praise the Lord Jesus-the skinny jeans are going away! Really, did we all need to re-live the 80’s? They didn’t look good then, and they don’t look good now. This gives hope to those of us gals who weigh more than 85 lbs. Now if I see a stretch-pant on anyone any time soon, I will probably lose it.