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.
Castle and Owl Jack-O’-Lanterns Skeleton LoversRegency 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 GhostsSpell Book Cat with PumpkinWondering
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.
I bought all of these Make Market 8×10 Halloween diamond paintings to sell at a craft faire coming on October 25th 2025. I have made pretty much all of these except for 2. I’m still working on Neon Pumpkin and then I have Spider Skull to make and then they will all be finished. These are the ones that I’ve made so far. I put the image of the ones that are not finished in as placeholders. I will replace them when I make the diamond paintings. These are not the order in which I made them, I only put them in this order to match the order of the boxes in the image above.
I really do love Halloween and I love all of these 8×10 Diamond paintings. I did not think that I would buy any Halloween Diamond paintings because even though I love Halloween, I don’t really celebrate it much and I couldn’t see myself hanging any diamond paintings or any pictures for Halloween on my walls. That is until I saw what they had at Michaels in their diamond painting Halloween collection. I fell in love with pretty much every one of these diamond paintings no matter the size and I bought pretty much all of them. Not every single one, but pretty much LOL.
Yes, all of these will be at the craft fair and I have extras for the ones that I really wanted to keep for myself that I will make for myself if these sell. If they don’t sell, then I won’t make it. It can just sit in the box and then I’ll make it eventually if somebody else wants it. And then of course I will also add all of these that don’t sell to my Etsy shop so somebody can buy it online.
And yes, these all came with a purple stylus. All of them. I bought two of the Spooky Mushrooms and two of the Red Queen, so I have 12 purple styluses. Of course, I will offer that in the listing for the diamond painting if somebody wants it. I certainly don’t need that many stylus pens for making diamond art.
I have some 5×7 and some 16×20 Diamond paintings for Halloween that are not all finished and I will add a new blog post for those when I finish making them all. And I will also update those two Diamond paintings in this listing to replace the placeholders.
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.
So starting with the 18×24 Diamond paintings, I actually have 2 of the Sunflower Bouquet, 2 Lake Forest, then 1 each of Cottage and Books. I’ve already made one Lake Forest and that one is hanging in the living room, but someone also wants the Lake Forest and so I bought another to make. I wanted the Sunflower Bouquet for myself, and I made it, and then I sent it to someone in Idaho. So I bought another for myself and now somebody wants to buy it, so I bought a third one. So technically because I don’t have the one that’s in Idaho, I only have two for now.
The 16×20 there is Mushroom, Wheat Field by Vincent Van Gogh, Skull, Pagoda, Cliffside and a Halloween one called Castle and Owl. I have already made the Mushroom one and I’m currently working on Wheat Field.
The 11×14 are Palm Tree Hut, Flamingo Float in Pool, Pineapple Drink, Colorful Street and Sun Fruits. All of these have been made and are in my Etsy shop. I had two more called Rainbow Surfboards and Beach Chairs and those both sold in my Etsy shop.
The next picture of the 11×14 summer collection are Girl with Bird, Pink Guitar, Sunset Beach and Lifeguard Stand. I would like to make all of those for my Etsy Shop except Sunset Beach. I want that one.
Then there are the two little boxes with the two 5x7s in each that are Beaches and Fruit. Then next to that is Scary Mushrooms which is a Halloween 8×10. Also in the next picture which is the picture of the actual Diamond painting is Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night which is a 8.5×11 diamond painting. I don’t have the box anymore because I sent another diamond painting to someone in that box to protect it during shipment.
This is a lot of Diamond paintings, but that’s not even close to the amount of diamond paintings that they still have available for me to buy. Of course I am trying my best to resist buying any more, because I need to make them before I should buy more.
Right now I am currently working on an Amazon Diamond painting that is being made specifically for a craft fair coming in October, and then if still available will go in my Etsy shop. I have four more Amazon and 4 Temu ones coming that I want to make for the craft fair and I’m making those during the day in the living room while I make the bigger Make Market ones at night in my bedroom. Like I said before, the bigger one that I’m making right now is Wheat Field, but when that is finished I will work on both of the Sunflower Bouquet Diamond paintings one after the next. I will then have to work on Books because that is going to be a Christmas gift that will go to my aunt and uncle in Texas.
As for the 18×24 Cottage and the rest of the 16×20 Diamond paintings, I will eventually get to them. There is absolutely no rush because they’re not going anywhere and they’re not going to anyone in particular. They can sit around until I get to them even if that means after the new year. I can only work on so many things at a time and I have other things that I need to do other than Diamond paintings during the holidays. I have to work on Halloween box cards, Thanksgiving box cards and Christmas box cards and those will take a long time to do. That’s going to take away from working on Diamond paintings because I’m going to work on box cards all day long to get them done faster.
There are a couple of the Halloween Diamond paintings that I would love to get, but they are the smaller 8×10 ones because I would like to buy them as gifts for my Etsy Shop’s large purchases. I made the scary mushroom one in a couple of days, So I don’t think it would take too long to make a few of those to have them ready to send out as a free gift. The same goes if they have those same size ones for Christmas. Of course, if I have those made before the craft fair in October, I will sell them there.
I would have loved to have made some of the 16×20 Diamond paintings to sell at the craft fair, and I will if I have time, but I don’t think I will have much time. I do have places picked out in my bedroom that I would love to hang these Diamond paintings for myself. The Wheat Field is going to go near my bed along with the Starry Night next to it. I have a space picked out for the Sunflower Bouquet which is going to replace my pez dispenser rack. And then the Cottage is going to go above my television because I would like to remove the rack that’s up there that has nothing but tchotchkes on it that do nothing but collect dust. I would rather have artwork there instead. Then there is another wall in my bedroom that has another rack hanging on it that I would like to remove to place a couple of diamond painting for the same reason. I was thinking of putting the castle and owl there. That is a Halloween diamond painting, but it doesn’t have to be because it looks like a Harry Potter image. That I would have all year long on the wall. I may put Cliffside or Skull above or below that and Pagoda in the hallway. Whichever I don’t hang with Harry Potter will go in the hallway. Also, the Mushrooms and Spooky Mushrooms are in the hallway.
Of course, there are some more Diamond paintings that are still in my Michael’s wish list, but as of now I don’t know where I would even put them even if I did have them. There’s only so many spots on the wall in my bedroom that I can put them. I don’t think there is any room for any Diamond paintings throughout the rest of the house because there’s artwork on every wall. Lake Forest is in the living room hanging above the organ, that is the only space that was available for a diamond painting in the living room.
There will be another craft fair in the spring, and of course I will most likely be making Diamond paintings all day long like I am now that I can bring with me to the craft fair that will hopefully sell. I think that would be the only purpose for buying any more Diamond paintings at this point. I really have to draw the line somewhere.
When I first started Diamond painting in April this year, I had no plans on making Diamond paintings to sell, but, I didn’t rule it out entirely. My main focus was to collect the leftover Diamond drills for using in my papercrafts and if I found that I liked making the diamond paintings, then perhaps I will sell the product that came from it. My Etsy Shop focuses mostly on things that are rainbows because it is a gay Etsy shop and rainbows are a big part of the gay community, so, I like to make things with rainbow colors to sell to people in my community.
Over the last few months I have been buying rainbow themed Diamond paintings and these six are ones that I do plan on making. I have made one of these, the tree of life on the very bottom left and it did not come out as well as I thought it would, but it is still a nice Diamond painting. I think that the other ones will look a lot better based on the way they look on the canvas with the squares and symbols in them.
Most of the diamond paintings that I’ve bought from Michaels are summer themed and I do plan on selling those as well, and those are the ones that I seem to be working on mostly rather than the rainbow diamond paintings. I will be getting to the rainbow ones, but I would like to focus on finishing all of the Michaels summer diamond paintings so that I can put those in a single listing first, and then when those are finished, I will start working on the rainbow themed Diamond paintings and put all of those in one listing.
I have so far only completed four of these, believe it or not. I still have so many more to make. I made the surfboards first and then I made those two little ones with the rainbow umbrella and the Adirondack chairs and then the beach scene which is called beach chairs and I just finished working on the fourth one called colorful street. The next one that I’m going to make is the one with the pink flamingo in the swimming pool.
I swear the Michael’s Make Market diamond paintings look like they were taken from real pictures. They look so lifelike. I just don’t know how they can make them look so real. And they are Diamond paintings which means they’re pixelated. It’s just the oddest thing that when you’re standing back or even looking at a picture of it, it looks so real. It almost looks like a photograph. I think that’s what makes me so attracted to this brand as opposed to any other brand that I’ve found because these look like they are actual pictures.
Another thing that I love about these summer Diamond paintings is that they come with their own frames. So I don’t have to worry about buying frames for all of these diamond paintings because they’re already in the box. It makes it so much easier to sell something if it comes with its own frame because then I don’t have to spend extra money and then also charge extra money for the frame. I did however have to buy frames for the Rainbow Diamond paintings from Amazon because they don’t come with frames. The summer Diamond paintings from Michaels are all 11×14 and the rainbow ones are 10×14.
I want to focus on the summer Diamond paintings so that I can list those on Etsy first, because summer won’t last forever, but rainbows do. Although, if you love the beach, you’re going to love it all the time. I will have the summer Diamond paintings in there until they’re all sold out.
When I first started Diamond painting, I was doing it only in the bedroom from about 5:00 p.m. until about 11:00 or 12:00 midnight. I didn’t do anything during the day except sit on the couch and watch TV and look at my phone, but I decided that I wanted to start working on some Diamond paintings in the living room and so I’ve been working on a smaller diamond painting in the living room during the day, and then a bigger Diamond painting in the bedroom at night.
I started working on the Mushroom diamond painting that I mentioned in a previous blog post where I talked about putting parchment paper on it instead of the silicone release sheets that I buy from Amazon. I couldn’t get the parchment paper off and there was a lot of stuff on the sticky part of the diamond painting that I still couldn’t get off. I managed to finish making that in 8 days, and I also made another Diamond painting that I started making a few days ago. The diamond painting that I’ve been working on in the living room is one of the summer Diamond paintings that I got on clearance at Michaels.
Beach Chairs by Make Market started on July 27, 2025 and finished on July 30, 2025Mushrooms by Make Market started on July 21, 2025 and finished on July 29, 2025
The Beach Chairs Diamond painting came with its own wooden magnetic frame, but the bigger ones don’t come with frames. I will have to eventually buy a wooden magnetic frame and cut the sides off. I’ll have to scrub the entire Mushroom Diamond painting with a scrub brush and some water to scrub out all of the crap left from the parchment paper. I already tried it and it seemed to take the dirt off without taking any of the diamond drills off, so I’ll have to go over the whole entire diamond painting before I seal it.
This whole making two Diamond paintings at one time seems to be working out for me, although my back is in a lot of pain LOL.
I have chosen two new diamond paintings to start making on July 31, 2025. They are Colorful Street which is a 11×14 diamond painting, the same size as the Beach Chairs diamond painting, and it comes with a wooden magnetic frame.
And then for the bigger one in the bedroom, I’ve chosen Lake Forest which is a 18×24 diamond painting.
The Lake Forest Diamond painting is the same size as the Sunflower Bouquet diamond painting that I made before that took me 3 weeks to make. I’ve gotten a little faster at making Diamond paintings, so perhaps it might not take me that long, but it still will take a while. It might not take me 3 weeks, but I’m sure it won’t be less than 2 weeks. This is still a big Diamond painting to make. But I enjoy making them and this is going to look wonderful in our living room.
I “kitted up” both kits and I have the Colorful Street in the living room ready to go for tomorrow morning, and I have the Lake Forest on my desk in my bedroom ready to go tomorrow night. I’m looking forward to making both of these because I really love them.
Make Market Seasonal Diamond Paintings on ClearanceMake Market Diamond Paintings
So I got another $10 Michael’s rewards voucher and I went back to Michaels and got another Diamond painting, one that was in my wish list and you’ll see it on the second image on the far right and it is the one with the skull. I also picked up a few more of the summer Diamond paintings because they are on clearance.
At this point it looks like I’m a hoarder and I can’t help but laugh at myself because I just can’t stop myself. But if they keep sending me $10 vouchers, how can I not go back and buy more?
Everything that you see in these two pictures were on sale or on clearance or I bought them on sale and had a $10 voucher and got it for an extremely low price. Let me explain.
I was buying Diamond paintings on Amazon and on Temu and the ones that I was buying were okay, and I liked them, but my life partner told me instead of wasting your money on cheaper Diamond paintings, get some premium Diamond paintings and see how those are.
My birthday was on June 2nd and so I bought my diamond paintings on the app and there was a coupon for the Mushroom Diamond painting for 30% off. So instead of being $19.99, it was only $13.99, and the Rainbow Surfboards was on sale for $7.99 from $14.99. I didn’t need a coupon because it was already on sale.
After we left my birthday dinner at Golden Corral, we went to Michaels to pick up my diamond paintings and I got a birthday coupon in my email for 40% off and so I bought the Sunflower Bouquet Diamond painting. Its regular price is $29.99 and my 40% off coupon brought it down to $17.99. Those were the first three Diamond paintings that I got from Michaels.
Throughout the month of June I was working on the Rainbow Surfboards and the Sunflower Bouquet Diamond painting and I finished the Sunflower Bouquet Diamond painting in mid July. My life partner and I decided that I was going to send the Sunflower Bouquet diamond painting to a friend of ours who lives in Idaho and so I thought well, maybe I should get her something else because I really wanted that Diamond painting for myself. So I bought another Diamond painting for her and it’s the one that is the Lake Forest. That is the same size as the Sunflower Bouquet Diamond painting. The Lake Forest Diamond painting was regular $29.99 and I used a coupon for 40% off and so it went down to $17.99. I’d also bought the Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh (not pictured) and that was regular $19.99 and it brought it down to $11.99. I decided that I was just going to go ahead and send her the Sunflower Bouquet Diamond painting instead and so I went back onto the Michaels app and I couldn’t use the 40% off coupon again. It was a one-time thing per account, but I had another 30% off coupon so I bought it and it brought the price down from $29.99 to $20.99.
So a week later I got an email from Michael’s saying that I earned a $10 Michael’s rewards voucher and I decided that I wanted to get the Wheat Field by Vincent Van Gogh Diamond painting. That was a $19.99 Diamond painting and I used a 40% off coupon that brought it down to $11.99, and then I used my $10 voucher and that brought my total down to $2.15.
That same night after I bought that Diamond painting, I went back to the Michaels app and was looking around and all of their summer Diamond paintings had been $7 on clearance and all of a sudden they were $4.49, so I bought five of them. Then cut two 2 days ago. I got another $10 Michael’s rewards voucher so I went back to the app and purchased the Skull and that was regular $19.99 and I used a 35% off coupon and that brought the price down to $12.99. I used my $10 voucher and that brought the price down to $3.24.
When I went to pick up the Skull, I went in and I went all the way over to where they had the diamond paintings that were on clearance to see what else they had and I bought two more of the ones that are 11×14 and then I bought two boxes that have two Diamond paintings in each box that are 5×7.
And that brings us to where I am today.
I have been seeing a lot of videos on YouTube of people sharing their “stash” as they call it, of Diamond paintings. Their stash being Diamond paintings that they bought, but are still sitting in their box waiting to be made. One person had 73 Diamond paintings, and they aren’t cheap either. A lot of them are Diamond Art Club which cost $60 and up. Other people had more and I was thinking whoa, that’s crazy. And now look at me. I still have about eight or nine Diamond paintings from Amazon and I’m still working on the last Temu Diamond painting and now I have all of these Make Market Diamond paintings from Michaels. I thought my stash was huge until I saw that that one person has 73.
The thing about me is that I will be making these diamond paintings. They’re not going to be sitting in my room because I have been working on Diamond paintings every single day since I started in April. I have made three Diamond paintings that have the blue butterflies with the sunflowers and have given them all away. I have another one because I wanted to make that to sell in my Etsy shop, but I’m sure someone’s going to ask me to make that for them LOL. There are also some of the clearance Diamond paintings that I intend on giving to people so these are not all just going to be collecting dust. Some of them will be made by me and some of them will be given away and a lot of the ones from Amazon will be made and sealed and framed and put on Etsy. I don’t intend on letting any of these go to waste.
This hobby is definitely a huge addiction and I’m hoping that I resist the urge to buy anymore. But, I’m pretty satisfied with the amount of diamond paintings that I have and I don’t see any reason to go back to Michaels to get anymore unless I get another $10 voucher and the price of diamond painting is a couple bucks LOL. If that’s the case then I’ll be okay with getting more but I just don’t see myself needing to buy anymore. I still do have some in my wish list on the Michaels app, but they’re not urgent and they’re not on clearance so I don’t have to worry about them disappearing forever. There is one particular Diamond painting that is the big one that is the bookshelf and I do want to make that as a Christmas present from one of my aunts who actually has a library in her house. I think that would be a nice gift for her.
I really do like these diamond paintings from Michaels more than I like the diamond paintings from Amazon or Temu. The quality of the images is just superior to me. A lot of the ones that I’ve gotten from Amazon and Temu are okay, but the detail is lost in some of the diamond paintings. The ones from Michaels, you can see what everything is supposed to be and the details are just fantastic. Any diamond paintings that I had in my Amazon wishlist are gone. I no longer have any desire to buy those anymore. Also, the very fact that I have so many diamond paintings sitting in my bedroom that I won’t be needing to buy any more diamond paintings anytime soon for the foreseeable future. I probably have enough diamond paintings to keep me busy for the next year.
So yesterday I was planning on making my Mushroom diamond painting from Make Market at Michael’s and also another diamond painting that I have from Temu, and I was low on the release papers and I remembered someone somewhere said instead of using those release papers from Amazon or wherever you get them, use parchment paper instead. Just buy a roll of parchment paper and you’ll be golden and it’ll save you a lot of money. Blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah, that did not work out that way for me today.
I went to start working on my Mushroom diamond painting and I could not remove the parchment paper very easily. It was very difficult to come off. My life partner suggested I use the heat gun to make the glue or the parchment paper soft, and it kind of worked, but it was still a bitch to remove. I have some release papers, but I only had 10 and I needed at least 12 for the Mushroom diamond painting and also I needed some for the Starry Night with the Tardis from Temu. I didn’t have enough so I used the parchment paper and now I’m regretting it so much.
At this point I’m not going to follow any advice anymore because every time I’ve ever followed advice from somebody I don’t even know on the internet, it always ends up in disaster for me. Someone once told me to sharpen your Cricut blade to rub aluminum foil on it and I did and I went to use the Cricut blade and it wouldn’t even cut anything. It just destroyed the blade, and the blade ripped the paper instead of cutting it. I went to Michaels to buy another blade, thank you very much for costing me money, and I told the lady who worked there and she said I’ve never heard that before and I would not suggest doing that again.
I threw away the plastic that was on both diamond paintings, so those were gone because remember I took them off last night and crumbled them up and put them in the garbage. I found one in the garbage for the Tardis but I couldn’t find the one for the Mushroom. I was able to take off the parchment paper from both, but the one on the Tardis is okay to stay on there for now because it comes off easier since it’s already been removed. It’s not as stuck on as much as it was with the Mushroom. I guess there’s something about the glue that they used that’s different for each of them. So for now I’m just going to keep that one on the Tardis but use the release papers on the mushroom and I put the crumbled up plastic on the part of the Mushroom that doesn’t have release paper.
So before when I would make my diamond paintings I would put my grid on the diamond painting and then cut the release paper around the grid so that when I finished using the grid, the spots around the grid were still covered with the release paper. But since that happened I’m just going to remove the release paper sheet and then put my grid on the diamond painting and continue until the worked amount is the size of the release paper. Like this.
The release paper is about 4×6. So when I finished with that one release paper, I put that one sheet in one of the spots that was missing release paper. So tomorrow when I take another sheet off, I will put that where the other spot is and then just keep doing that until all of the spots are covered in release paper.
I bought more release paper on Amazon and it won’t be here until Wednesday, and I bought two packs, and each pack has 100. I’m sure that taking them off and putting them back on is probably going to be wear and tear on it so that’s why they sell so much in one pack, so I’m just going to do it like this from now on instead of cutting it.
I’m going to be working on the Tardis during the day in the living room and then when I come into the bedroom at 5:00 p.m I’ll work on the Mushroom. So the Tardis one is still going to have the parchment paper on it and I’ll just cut that away until the release paper comes and just replace it. The Tardis one is much smaller than the mushroom one, which is too big to make in the living room on the couch. I can do that easier at my desk and there’s no point in me sitting in the living room doing nothing until 5:00 p.m., I might as well do something in the living room during the day so I’ll do the Tardis and the living room.
Hey, I have to keep busy. I’m disabled and this is the only thing that I’m able to do. Every now and then I have to stop because it starts hurting my back, but I’d rather be doing something than just sitting there watching TikTok all day long in the living room.
Just for reference, the mushroom Diamond painting canvas is 19″ wide x 23″ high, the actual image is 16″ x 20″, and the Starry Night Police Box (TARDIS) canvas is 19.5″ wide x 16″ high and the actual image is 17.5″ x 13.75″. So as you can see in this image, it’s easier to hold the Tardis in my lap on the couch and then use the desk to make the Mushroom. See, there is a method to my madness.
So I guess the moral of the story is don’t do everything someone tells you, whether you know them or not. Test it out for yourself and if it works then it works and if it doesn’t then it doesn’t. And if they say that the parchment paper works for them, ask them what brand because obviously that matters.
These are all of the Make Market diamond paintings that are in my stash
Yesterday I made a post about buying some more Make Market Diamond paintings from Michael’s, because I bought the “Wheat Field by Vincent Van Gogh” Diamond painting with a coupon for 40% off and I used my $10 Michaels rewards voucher and the total of the diamond painting was $2.15. I also mentioned that I purchased five of the smaller Diamond paintings that are 11″ x 14″ and I wasn’t sure if I was going to get them all, but this morning we went to Michael’s and they were all there waiting for me.
So I took a picture of all of the Make Market diamond paintings that are in my stash. I now have nine that I need to make and I have already made three of them from past purchases. The first one was the “Rainbow Surfboards”, the second one was the “Sunflower Bouquet”, and the third one was “The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.” So that leaves me with all of the rest that you see here in this image at the top. The ones that I’ve already made, the boxes are not in the picture, except for the Sunflower Bouquet diamond painting which I bought a second one so I could make another one because I gave the first one away.
“Rainbow Surfboards” by Make Market“Sunflower Bouquet” by Make Market “The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh” by Make Market
I’m already starting to work on my next diamond painting which is the “Mushroom” Diamond painting from Make Market. I “kitted” that diamond painting when I got it even though I knew I wasn’t going to get to it right away, so since all of the diamond drills are in containers in my diamond drill drawers, I thought I would work on this one next.
I have bought many diamond paintings from Amazon and they are okay, but those don’t compare to the quality of the Make Market diamond paintings by Michael’s. Of course, I’m sure some will argue that the best diamond paintings are from Diamond Art Club, but I can’t afford Diamond Art Club Diamond paintings because those are on a whole other tax bracket LOL. Those cost a lot of money and I just don’t have that kind of money.
I still have some Make Market Diamond paintings in my wish list that I would like to eventually purchase. I have the Michaels credit card and I’ve charged quite a bit of money on it this month for these diamond paintings, so I’m going to pay that off in the beginning of next month and then I will wait for another coupon and buy those.
These Diamond paintings are in my Michael’s wish list. I think they are so interesting and so lifelike. What I like about some of these images that they have is that they look like they were taken from a picture. Like the rainbow surfboards above. The people at Make Market have done such a wonderful job with these diamond paintings.
“Skull” by Make Market “Roses” by Make Market “Hydrangea” by Make Market “Books” by Make Market
All of these are 16″ X 20″ except for the “Books” which is 18″ x 24″.
If you like to do Diamond painting, let me know if you prefer one brand over another or if you just don’t really care about the brand and just want to make anything from anywhere.
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