Well, I think I’ve officially lost my mind. After all of the summer Diamond paintings, I thought to myself there’s no way I’m going to buy any of the diamond paintings for Halloween from Make Market at Michaels. I like Halloween, but I’m not sure I want to spend a lot of money on Diamond paintings for them. I didn’t know how awesome they were and I did buy a few, but I limited myself to those few. Then my life partner suggested that the ones that I had already made I could sell at the craft fair and put in my Etsy shop and he said I should buy more of one particular set because they are the 5x7s and he thinks that those will sell because they’re small and they have more to do with the Enchanted Cottage store that we will be selling them at. It’s a mystical shop and they are mystical Diamond paintings, so it only makes sense that I doubled up this particular set.

I had also bought the diamond painting of the Witch Eye, which looks like the witch from The Wizard of Oz, or Wicked, take your pic. I had also bought and made the Red Queen which is an Alice in Wonderland Diamond painting and I thought that those 2 would actually be perfect to sell it at the craft fair. I made the Spooky Mushrooms for myself to go with my 16×20 Mushrooms Diamond painting, but I bought another one because I think someone would like that at the craft fair. Also, I’m bringing my bigger mushroom diamond painting because I think someone would want to buy it there. I want to keep it, but I can always make another one.

So, I had put the celestial kit in my shopping cart on the Michaels website along with some other of the 8×10 framed Diamond paintings like these and I was going to wait for the price to go down a little bit. I wanted them to go down to clearance prices because then I could buy a whole bunch of Diamond paintings, but I had a lot of the 8x10s and some of the 16x20s in my cart and I thought I’m already getting a really good price with the 50% off plus my senior citizen discount. So I think I’ll just go ahead and make the purchase now. Well, then I started working on the 16×20 Diamond painting of the castle and owl which I believe is like a Harry Potter thing. And my life partner said that someone would definitely want to buy that and I said well, I’m making this for myself. Then I got to thinking that he’s right, somebody would probably want to buy that one, so I had to place another order LOL. I actually ended up buying a bunch of Diamond paintings that I actually did not want to buy at all, but I ended up buying them because I was going to get free shipping on my cart over $49. Again, I was waiting for them to go on clearance, but then I noticed there were some that were saying that they are no longer available to ship and I was afraid that if I did not pull the trigger and make my purchase, then half of my cart would probably be unavailable.

So I took the Box images and put them all into one image to show what I actually bought. The first image is all of the 16×20 inch Diamond paintings from both orders. So I have the Castle and Owl as I said, and I bought another one. I only bought one mystery Diamond painting because I was afraid if I bought all four, they would end up sending me duplicates.

This next image shows all of the 8×10 Diamond paintings that have frames and also come with a purple stylus. So, I already have the Red Queen, Witch Eye and Spooky Mushrooms. I figured that somebody would want the mushrooms so I bought another one because I want to keep the one that I have. The one that has the skull and the spiders, somebody that buys buttons from my Etsy Shop actually wants that one, so I’m making it for her. I bought a second Red Queen because I want to keep one for myself.

This next image are of the three boxes that have the 5×7 Diamond paintings. The celestial on the far left is the one that I have and I bought a second one. The one in the middle is the regency set of 5×7 Diamond paintings that I thought somebody would definitely want to buy there. The one on the far right is an Alice in Wonderland themed set. I bought one in each order.

So I mentioned that I wanted to keep the Red Queen for myself so I bought a second one, and then this set that has four 5x7s, I thought somebody would definitely want to buy that at the craft fair, but I wanted to keep one for myself as well. The reason why is because I bought that 16×20 Diamond painting of Alice and I want to keep that for myself, so I wanted to keep all three of those to stay together.

It is worth noting that all of these Diamond paintings have round Diamond drills, except for two of them. The 16×20 one that has the spellbook and the bottles of potions and the 16×20 of Alice in Wonderland both have square diamond drills. Those two are actually sitting together in the image that has all of the 16×20 Diamond painting boxes.

I will definitely be able to finish all of the 8×10 and all of the 5×7 Diamond paintings long before the craft fair comes along, but I am doubtful that I will be able to finish all of the 16×20 Halloween diamond paintings before the craft fair. I’m almost finished with Castle and Owl, so I know that will be ready, and I’m fairly certain that I will probably be able to make two or maybe three of the other 16×20 ones. I’m definitely not going to be able to do them all. I think the ones that I will make for the craft fair will be the ones that I do not feel strongly about keeping. Any of the diamond paintings that I have already made that I bought a second one for will be on hold until after the craft fair to see if anybody buys them or not. If nobody wants them, then I won’t have to make them again for myself. There is no reason to waste any of my time making the second one for myself if I end up keeping them.

This is a lot of work, but I know I can handle it because I can make one of the 8x10s in one day, and I will have plenty of time to finish all of those long before I need them. Because I will be working on all of these Diamond paintings, I won’t really have time to make anything else for the craft fair. I do want to make some Halloween buttons because you can’t go to a craft fair in October and not bring Halloween buttons. Those I could do in a couple of hours.

Some of the other Diamond paintings that I made for myself will be coming with me to the craft fair because those are not seasonal which means I can buy the kit again to make the diamond painting again. All of the Halloween Diamond paintings are going to literally be discontinued when they no longer have any to sell. They do this every year apparently, so every Diamond painting that you see here will not be there next year. They might have another version of some of them, but they won’t be the same ones. I saw some images from last year and one of them was a 16×20 of the skeleton lovers and they looked completely different from the one for this year. They also had a 16×20 Diamond painting of the witch from Wicked and I really wish that I had gotten that one.

Of course, I will also be adding whatever I will be bringing with me to the craft fair to my Etsy shop because if somebody doesn’t buy something at the craft fair, they can get it from my Etsy shop to be mailed to them. So it doesn’t matter where someone buys them, I just hope someone buys them.

I really do enjoy doing this craft, but I am worried about the amount of money I’ve spent already to buy this massive amount of Diamond paintings that I have no guarantee anybody will want to buy. But that’s the gamble that you take when you buy craft items to make to sell at a craft fair or on Etsy. Everything is a gamble, and it doesn’t matter what it is.

Update October 7, 2025: I thought I updated this but apparently I did not. I bought this for myself and then my life partner suggested I sell it at the craft fair, so then I bought another one for myself which I will make after the craft faire after all of the other Diamond paintings that I need to make as gifts for people. I may get this finished for myself before the end of this year, or I may have to wait until January, but I will make it for myself and it will hang in my bedroom all year long and not just on Halloween.