1. Word to the wise - It will take about a month and a half for your project to arrive - if you are prepared for that, it will help you be more patient in the process. 2. Find a way to organize all the tiny pieces. It will help you! Warning - don't spill them on the carpet! You will never find them again and it meant I didn't have enough of some colors, but I made it work. (lesson learned!) 3. There are no instructions at all. When I was 98% done, I realized what the pink sticky stuff was for - use it on the tool to help pick up the tiny diamonds. That would have been nice to know from the start. 4. Many of the diamonds are stuck together and hard to get apart without having them go flying! With some colors, I used every single diamond they sent me -and I don't think I spilled more than a couple of them! 5. My hummingbird project I did had lots of blue in both "B" and "8". It was VERY difficult to tell the difference between the B and the 8 and I did a bunch of guessing. It still turned out nice, though. 6. My project came folded in half and even after several months of laying it flat, taping it down and, putting books on it to flatten it, it still has an obvious fold even now in the completed state. Hint to the company - ship these in tubes so there aren't fold lines! I found it easiest to tape the canvas into a tray that fit it pretty well to hold it flat. 7. The edge of the project has a sticky portion. As I worked on it, the sticky portion caught pieces of my sweaters and clothing, so now it has a dark, "linty" edge. 8. I'm not sure how to go about framing this now that I'm done because of the sticky edge. It's sort of an odd size, too. I'm not sure I'll find a frame to fit it. After all the work I did to complete it, I'd like to display it somehow. 9. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed doing this, despite my complaints. It was very tedious, but I found it relaxing. I hope this review helps someone else!