The Domino Effect

According to Wikipedia the domino effect is a chain reaction that occurs when a small change causes a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence. The term is best known as a mechanical effect, and is used as analogy to a falling row of dominoes. It typically refers to a linked sequence of events where the time between successive events is relatively small.

A few weeks ago I made 4 domino pins and gave them away to some co-worker friends I hadn't seen in a while when we got together for lunch. They all seem to like my little gift and I really enjoyed making the pins and giving them away. Photos of my first domino pins are in my previous post. The mini set of dominoes came in a pack of 28.  I made more pins with the remaining 24 dominoes.

A week later my husband and I had lunch with another group of our friends. I wanted to give the ladies in our group one of my pins but I had a hard time deciding which of the 24 pins to choose for each of my friends.  I place all 24 of the pins in a cigar box then I decorated 4 match boxes to take along to our get together.  While we waited for our food to arrive at the table during our lunch I gave each of the ladies an empty but pretty match box. I told them that they could choose one of the pins to put in their box. They passed the box around the table and each one picked out a pin that they liked. I discovered I would have only chose one correctly.  They were delighted with the gifts and all of them elected to wear the pins immediately and slip the gift boxes into their handbags.  

I took the remaining 20 pins to a family gathering last week. There are 12 pins left.  I'm sure I'll give more away and I just might put a few in my Etsy shop. 

Oh, I bought the mini domino set at the dollar store. I did make a trip back to the store and purchased two more sets. I'm going to make more pins and I have some other ideas for what to do with dominoes besides game playing.

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The flower decorations on the boxes are the paper bag flowers I made a few weeks ago and shared in a previous post. 

 Some  of the images and backgrounds are from Dezinaworld ,  Gecko Galz  and Lisa's Altered Art. 

If I missed anyone please let me know, I like to give credit.