Everyday Celebrations From Scratch: Easy Recipes and Crafts for Everyday Celebrations

Spend time together as a family making fun crafts, baking delicious treats, and building memories for years to come. Elevate the ordinary and make every day special with your kids.

Everyday Celebrations from Scratch is filled to the brim with impressive (yet ridiculously easy) recipes, step-by-step craft tutorials, and inspirational ideas to set the scene--all to help you create the life and memories you want. Each section of the book provides inspiration for both food and do-it-yourself (DIY) projects, so you can invest minimum time for maximum impact!

Discover how fun it can be to . . . 

Celebrate Weeknight Meals with:

• Delicious, fun meals and desserts like loaded veggie nachos, creamy Tuscan salmon, and homemade waffle cone dessert tacos
• Fun DIY projects like painted and personalized place mats and homemade confetti
• Tips for how to make breakfast boards, upgrade your takeout, or how to have family fun by intentionally making a mess!

Celebrate Family with:

• Creative kid time that incorporates fun treats like ice cream in a bag with homemade sprinkles
• Family picnics with DIY personalized tables and yummy fruit and brownie Kabobs
• Tasty family favorite recipes like mom's German pancakes and chocolate peanut butter bonbons

Celebrate Friendship with

• Creative DIY crafts like custom bookmarks for your reading club or wine glass tags for a girl's night in
• Tips for grazing boards and book club topics
• Delectable treats to savor together like angel food cake trifle in a wine glass or sparkling blackberry mint water.

Celebrate Sports with:

• Tips for tailgate success or planning a winning field day
• DIY crafts to cheer on your team and celebrate like canvas banners, trophies, or felt pennants
• Yummy treats like fried pickles and dips, caprese pasta salad, or chicken kabobs

Celebrate Seasons with:

• Outdoorsy DIY projects camp signs or flannel drink sleeves and coasters
• Tips for backyard campout success or how to make a snow day fun
• Satisfying seasonal treat recipes like grilled corn salad, pumpkin pizza, and turkey chili

Everyday Celebrations from Scratch gives you the ideas and inspiration you need to make every moment count with your family. Everyday celebrations are the foundations of memories that last a lifetime, and now you will have what you need to get started and see just how easy it can be!

Maria Provenzano is a lifestyle expert who loves inspiring others through crafting and unique recipes. She believes in all things homemade and hopes to encourage others to add a bit of creativity (and fun!) to every day. 

Maria is the creator of the site FromScratchwithMaria.com and has had recipes published in numerous magazines, including Bake from Scratch Magazine, Taste of Home, Luxe Life Magazine, and Focus Magazine. She has also been featured on such sites as The Local Moms Network, LaurenConrad.com, Refinery 29, CafeMoms, and Giada De Laurentiis’s Giada: A Digital Weekly. 

On Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family, Maria shares her love of homemade crafts, food, and do-it-yourself (DIY) projects. As a mother, she also loves to inspire families to come together through crafting with kids. A native of the Great Lakes State of Michigan, Maria graduated from Florida State University with a BA in theatre and moved to Los Angeles after completing her degree. She is a wife and a mom to two happy boys, and she loves yoga, a great cup of coffee, and spending time with her family. 

Maria is a lover of all things crafty and is obsessed with cooking and feeding those around her. She is self-taught--and mom-taught, taking inspiration from the most imaginative, organized, detail-oriented person she knows: her mom! Her hope is to inspire others to be hands-on in their own lives. Follow Maria on Instagram @fromscratchwithmaria.