Month: November 2025

The Enchanted Cottage Fall Craft Faire in October 2025

On By Michel McDonaldIn crafts, diamond paintingLeave a comment

I was invited back to the Enchanted Cottage for their fall craft faire this October, and I had such a fun time and made a little bit of money.

Of course, not enough to pay me back for all of the money that I spent to be there, but I still made enough money to pay down one of my credit cards that paid for some of the things I bought.

Over the summer and after, I had spent probably $400 or more on Summer and Halloween Diamond paintings. I also spent $40 on that display stand for the diamond paintings. I originally thought that I only made $86, but it turned out I made $116. And then I sold two more Diamond paintings after the craft fair, and I’m adding that amount to this considering they were supposed to be sold at the craft fair. But that was an additional $120, so that’s not bad. That makes my total $236. The customer who bought one of the diamond paintings in my Etsy shop also bought more buttons which after Etsy and shipping fees came to $100 in profit deposited to my bank account, but I’m only counting the $60 for the diamond painting that I had on display at the craft faire, and not the custom order she placed for buttons.

It still didn’t quite pay me back for everything that I bought, but that’s ok because I’m just happy I was able to earn a little bit of money, and I have the rest of the diamond paintings in my Etsy shop, so who knows if/when they’ll sell.

My Etsy shop is currently in vacation mode because I need a triple bypass heart surgery, and I don’t know when that’ll happen, but I’m too busy working on diamond paintings for people who have requested them, which will ultimately add to the amount of money I’ve made which should hopefully put me back in the green. So I’m doing pretty good.

These are the diamond paintings that sold at the fall craft faire. The first one was the game controller from Temu, then there was the ghost from Make Market which is an 8×10. Then one of the psychics who works at Enchanted Cottage bought the skeleton lady 5×7 Diamond painting from the Dead Regency box, but at the end nobody bought the other ones, so I just gave the rest of them to her with the Box. They should really stay together anyway.

Neon Game Controller from Temu
Ghost

Of the five Summer Diamond paintings that I had that are 11×14, I had to remove three of them from the display because the frames were messed up. They were already bent in the box when I bought them, and I did not glue them to the diamond paintings. I should have, but I didn’t. Instead, I used double stick tape to hold them together, which is what I do with all of the ones that have with the wooden magnetic frames rather than gluing them. But the summer ones I’m going to have to glue the frames on to keep them together.

I do not plan on buying any more diamond paintings for the spring craft fair because I don’t think anyone will buy anything that I make. I will still continue working on the diamond paintings that I have that I will bring with me to the Spring Craft fair and hope that someone does decide that they want to buy them.

There are some that I bought that are Halloween diamond painting that I don’t really consider to be a Halloween theme because it is the Alice in Wonderland theme. There is the 16×20 diamond painting called Wondering which is the back of Alice. That one is a square Diamond painting, meaning the diamond drills are square and not round. The Red Queen 8×10 diamond painting and then I also have a box that has four 5×7 diamond paintings with the Alice in Wonderland theme called World of Wonders. So I will be bringing all three of these with me to the spring craft faire. I’m not sure anybody will want them, but I’m going to bring them anyway.

I have bought some Christmas diamond paintings from the Make Market brand from Michaels that I do not plan on selling. They are diamond paintings that I bought for me to make for our home. I already have way too many diamond paintings to make that I don’t think that I will even have time to make the two that I bought.

Make Market 16×20 Halloween Diamond Paintings

On By Michel McDonaldIn diamond painting, HalloweenLeave a comment
Castle and Owl
Jack-O’-Lanterns
Skeleton Lovers
Regency Skeletons

I just realized that I forgot to post the 16×20 Halloween diamond paintings from Make Market that I made.

So the first one is the Castle and Owl and I made that for myself and then my life partner told me that someone would buy that at the craft fair and that didn’t even occur to me to sell these there, so I ended up buying more because he told me that. I did bring this one with me to the craft fair and nobody wanted it. Every time somebody looked at it, I would tell them that it glowed in the dark and they would say oh that’s awesome, but still nobody wanted it. After the craft fair, one of my Etsy customers bought it as a Christmas gift for a friend of theirs.

So, I posted a video on TikTok about all of the diamond paintings that I bought for Halloween from Michael’s craft store and someone actually told me that she wanted the Jack-O’-Lanterns and so I told her what my price was and she accepted. So I made it and I sent it to her, but I didn’t have one for myself and I originally wanted this for myself and Michael’s had already sold out of this one, so I went to eBay and found one and I actually paid $30 to get it. The one you see in the image above is the one that I made for myself.

I didn’t want to get the skeletons because I wasn’t even sure if I would even hang them because of the morbidity of them being skeletons you know. But of course for Halloween that’s a totally different story, but still, I wasn’t sure I would even hang them in my room. Before I even went to the craft fair, I showed these two skeleton diamond paintings to my neighbor and she actually told me that she wanted to buy the Skeleton Lovers. So I did not bring that one with me to the craft fair. I actually brought the Regency Skeletons with me and nobody wanted it. A couple of people thought it was cool, but not enough to want to buy it. So I did hang it in my room and I actually love it. I actually fell in love with the Skeleton Lovers and wish that I could have bought another one when I had the chance. They actually restocked it on the Michaels website and I bought one, but it didn’t come. They gave me something else instead. Something that I already had, which was really disappointing because I really wanted that one for myself.

I actually have many more Diamond paintings that are in a drawer that I wasn’t able to make before Halloween, but I have a whole year to make them before next Halloween, and I’m very excited to make them. I have all four of the mystery Diamond paintings and I love them all. One of them is flowers and that one is supposed to be for Halloween, but a lot of people think that it was not Halloween related because it’s flowers, but it does look like a Halloween type of flowers to me. Another one is a skeleton in a frame and it kind of looks like the Regency skeleton collections that they had at Michaels for this season. Then there is another one that is a skull sitting on a book and that looks pretty cool. Then the fourth one is actually Jack-O’-Lanterns with a crow. That one is a glow in the dark one and I really look forward to making that one.

And then I have some other ones that are square diamond paintings. I have the Haunted Mansion, the Headless Horseman, Three Ghosts, Spell Book, the Cat with Pumpkin (which is actually round and not square) and the Wondering one which is Alice from Alice in Wonderland.

Haunted Mansion
Headless Horseman
Three Ghosts
Spell Book
Cat with Pumpkin
Wondering

I clearly have a severe case of FOMO 😂. But the reason why is because I discovered that once they sell out of all of these for the season, they will never have them ever again. And I wanted them, so I bought them. I actually have two of the Spell Book and two of the Three Ghosts and the reason why is because I bought another Skeleton Lovers and another Jack-o’-Lanterns and they didn’t come, instead I got these duplicates. But that is okay because somebody on TikTok wants me to sell them the Three Ghosts kit and I also want to make the Spell Book for someone and I also want to keep the other one for myself. So it all worked out in the end.

I remember when I finished buying all of the summer diamond paintings saying I don’t think I will buy any of their Halloween diamond paintings because even though I love Halloween, I don’t love it that much. Well, I bought every diamond painting they had for Halloween lol. I have no regrets.