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This week’s Giveaway Sponsor — BriarClaire {Accessories}

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Family Photographer, Senior Photographer, Photographer, Family Photographer, Shanna Simpson Photography, Child Photographer, Michaels Coupons We CSI girls are so excited to introduce you to BriarClaire!!! An amazing accessories shop on Etsy! In fact, they are the #1 handmade children’s Etsy shop. And for good reason — they’re accessories are so CUUUUTE! They sell everything from beautiful headbands: to clips: And hats! Everything your little one needs to look adorable! Check out their shop — they hundreds of different types of headbands and clips in stock and ready to ship!! And their prices are more than reasonable. BriarClaire is offering the {…Read More…}

Living With Lindsay…our FAB guest judge

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I want to give a big shout out to our wonderful guest judge this week…..Lindsay, from  Living With Lindsay  She is an extremely talented crafter, seamstress, and DIY-er (with a passionate love for her glue gun), not to mention a busy wife and mother!  We are thrilled to have her join us this week at The CSI Project for our $5 Challenge. This week is sure to be one of the best yet! Here are just a few of my top picks from Lindsay’s blog. She has some amazing projects and transformations. This Serene Nursery she created for her precious baby girl makes me {…Read More…}

Winners of the Spring Challenge!

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What can we say?  This challenge was so fun!  Every week you link up so many creative projects–but this week was particularly impressive.  You found so many beautiful ways to welcome Spring. Joining us this week from Sugar Bee Crafts is Mandy, our guest judge for the Spring Challenge.  She had a great time visiting all of your links.  This is what Mandy told us about what she saw: Your readers are amazingly talented!!!  I loved seeing how diverse everyone’s ideas were on the topic of Spring.  Something about Spring must bring out the “wreathmaking” in people–there were a ton {…Read More…}

Sugar Bee Crafts is in the CSI House

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Our fantastic guest judge at The CSI Project this week is none other than the wonderful Mandy, from Sugar Bee Crafts! She is a busy, happy, stay at home mom to 4 awesome kids who loves to get crafty during nap time (a girl after my own heart:) If you have yet to discover Sugar Bee Crafts, you are seriously missing out. Mandy’s blog is full of awesome projects and tutorials to keep you busy for quite a while! Let’s check out some of my personal faves that are oozing with “Spring” goodness and inspiration……. Playroom Tree Mural (using fabric and {…Read More…}

Giveaway of the Week: Smidge & Pinch!!

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Welcome to our Spring Challenge Week!! We CSI girls are so excited to introduce you to our newest sponsor – Smidge and Pinch {Posh Party supplies and Gifts}!! Smidge and Pinch is full of ways to make your parties and baked goods prettier! {from Colored Dragees} {Whimsical Cupcake Toppers} {Cello Treat Bags} And so much more!! It’s the perfect place to order supplies for your next party or event!! And, we’re going to mix things up a bit and allow you to get a few more ways to win the $25 credit to Smidge and Pinch!! You can still link {…Read More…}

Sponsor of the week: {just.lovely.things}

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I am so excited to introduce you to our sponsor of the week — Heather from {just.lovely.things}!! Hi I’m Heather! By day I’m a business owner of de L*ght! A Creative Space featuring Photography, Hair, Art and Retail, but in my spare time I am completely consumed with blogs.. which is why I have started my own.. This is my journal of everything that inspires me. I will attempt to do things I have learned in blogs.. (I did say attempt) and bits of my life will be sprinkled in between including but not limited to my life in beautiful Southern {…Read More…}

Guest Post – Ruffled Table Runner {green challenge}

Hi! super excited to be here today! I love love the csi project! I don’t particularly love st. patty’s (probably cause you don’t get any presents!)…but I LOATHE being pinched…so I play along.. and today I’m making a festive table runner… featuring RUFFLE FABRIC and guess what? no sewing! It’s 100% glue gun. (for the record..I own a sewing machine..just find that sometimes it’s easier to hot glue!)

Guest Post — Lucky Shamrock Wreath {green challenge}

HELLO- CSI Project FANS- I am Jennie From CraftOManiac………. and I am thrilled Jen asked if I would like to Guest Post a St. Patricks Day Craft here on THE CSI PROJECT. WA-HOO! Well my front door needed a wreath. So here is my “LUCKY SHAMROCK WREATH!”

Giveaway Sponsor: Lucy Doo Jewelry!!

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Hi, Y’all! My name is Sandi and I am Mississippi Girl at heart living in Texas with my wonderfully amazing husband, 2 incredible blessings, a daughter, age 10, and a son, age 13. I am a Christ-Follower, new blogger, owner of Lucy DooTM, and sucker for new recipes and projects. I began my jewelry business in Austin, Texas almost 12 years ago. You may be curious where thename Lucy DooTM comes from. It is the name my mom called me as a little girl. Not sure why she chose that name, but I LOVED it! As a woman, we all like to {…Read More…}

Welcome This Week’s Guest Judge

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I am so thrilled to introduce you to my new friend, Mandi from  Tidibts from the Tremaynes. As you can tell from her blog header up there, she has a seriously twisted sense of humor……aaaaaand she had me at HELLO! {love it} The girl has some wicked mad skills with power tools and the projects she chooses to tackle AMAZE me! A few things about Mandi, by Mandi……… “I’m momma to 3 homeboys and 1 homegirl. I think projects always trump cleaning, since projects are forever, and cleaning lasts for 5 minutes. I love molding and believe you can never have too {…Read More…}

Winners of the Molding Challenge!

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Wow!  The entries this week astounded us–it was amazing to see how many things you took from blah to beautiful with your imaginative use of moldings, trim, and frames. It was no easy task for our guest judge, Janna Hubert of Shadowcase, to select her favorites from all of the terrific entries. Janna told us, “There was so much creativity and inspiration in this linky party, I have been truly honored and thrilled to be a part of it!” And now for the winners….. #30 Dutch Style Pantry from Tidbits from the Tremaynes

Guest Molding Tutorial — How to do Ultra Quick Board and Batten!!

Hey CSIers! I am Mandi (also known as Mandilicious) and I blog at Vintage Revivals. You should click over and visit my blog because: 1. It’s awesome 2. I pretty much only do EPIC projects. Like this awesome rug that I just made for my living room. 3. It gets kind of crazy on my side of blogland…which is always fun right? 4 I am going to be famous one day.  Hopefully the good kind of famous, not the crazy E! story kind of famous. So here is what I am sharing with you all today.   How to do {…Read More…}