I've checked WM, they are too high. I won't buy a new set to alter (unless they're cheap), I'll look for old sets that are missing pieces to recycle. And why of all the game pieces my children have lost over the years did they not lose pieces to the dominoes or scrabble game??   KIDS!

NOW I know what yall are talking about! I just looked at ebay scrabble tiles. Holy Moly!!! Cute ear rings though.

Shells said:

Admitting to being lazy here…. I could read the entire thread and figure out what you need the domino's for, but , being lazy (as mentioned earlier) I am asking here.

What are you using the domino's for??

Here Shells…just for you…Jayne makes jewelry out of the dominos and scrabble tiles…and if you go out there and google that type of jewelry, you'll find more…I have some really cool magnets made out of dominos…done by stamping.

Jayne said:

I'm posting this here because while I made these while scrapbooking, and the two smaller ones used real photos, it's not really papercrafting.  I guess it's a crossover between papercrafting and jewelry. 

We used dominos, mini dominos and scrabble tiles to make these three.  The large heart pendant is stamped with two colors of ink and 4 stamps.  I stamped the words in black first, but after I stamped the red hearts it looked like the black words were stamped after.  I hope you enjoy looking at them!

GeorgiaZ said:

Ok, they were here at valentines day, so in a couple weeks they will be back. I know they had white ones and black ones. I think they had a spinner on them. Does that matter?

A spinner on the tile?? 

A spinner is a little metal "bump" in the center of the dots side. It makes it easy for those old men like my dad that sit waiting on their turn and spin the dominoes on the table.

When I still lived in California I shopped for glass at the Salvation Army on my way home from work. My husband would shake his head when I hauled in another box of glass – depression glass mainly – but I would tell him to just be glad I wasn't going to the department store and stocking up on shoes. Glass was cheaper. There was another Salvation Army store the other direction from my house, and I would stop there if I happened to be going by. The merchandise was TOTALLY different. The store in my neighborhood had all the regular stuff, but they had the depression glass, and the other one in a more working-class neighborhood had coffee mugs and drinking glasses. My neighborhood had designer jeans and prom dresses. Not the other store.

I got to know the people in charge of my store pretty well (I was there once a week or so – but I'm not obsessed…) They told me that they really did sort the merchandise and send it to the store where it would sell the best. Sometimes they guessed wrong and the same things they sent to "my" store and wouldn't sell were taken back and sorted and sent to other stores. It's just like neighborhood grocery stores. Some things just sell better in one area, and not at all in another.

The clothing and bedding that were donated  – when they should have been trashed and would never sell even in a thrift store because of tears or big stains – that cloth is bundled and sold by the pound to buyers that use it in making who knows what. Maybe shredded for stuffing? So nothing is wasted, it just trickles through the system until they squeeze every bit of good out of it.