Disaster Averted...but, the Wrong Shade of Red

Well, this is just turning into one of those weeks.

My outfit today was based around my new turquoise skinny belt, picked up for a mere $6 on clearance at the Bay a couple of weeks ago. I checked out the length in the store, seemed fine. But then when I went to put it on over my high-waisted pencil skirt at work this morning...

Uh-oh, the belt's too big. It sits a ways below my waist.

However, I was a Brownie and a Girl Guide and I'm nothing if not creatively resourceful. I eyed my trust steak knife/grapefruit knife (what? you don't keep a steak knife at your desk?), and with a couple of well-placed stabs, voila!
We have a new hole in the leather belt! But now there's all this excess length...so I trimmed it off with the scissors and touched up the ends with a green and a blue highlighter (office supplies rock!) and look at that:

You can hardly tell! I'm so handy. Now I'm all happy again.

Unfortunately, the red tights are not the right shade: they have too much blue in them, as opposed to a nice tomato-y red (with orange tones). Oh well, can't win 'em all.

At least I was bootylicious:Thanks, Ruth! That made my day.

The stuff:I had fun mixing grey with brown - I wasn't sure it would work, but I like how it turned out. On a side note, I bought four of these wardrobe items while on shopping trips with Elaine - all different trips, too! - the blouse, the shoes, the shrug and the tights.

Shrug (Debut), blouse (Mexx), skirt (Le Chateau), belt (Bianca Nygard), hose (Hue), shoes (Jessica Simpson), bracelet (Mom's, Coro, vintage), silver hoops.