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Project Beautiful's #PBColorOurWorld Brown

Say hello to Project Beautiful, a group of bloggers who are fascinated by the world around them, including things such as gardening, nature, books, cooking, children, and more! This is our monthly blog round up of posts centered around a specific color.  Last month, we featured the color orange and now this month, brown!


Let's talk about brown a bit.  Brown is a composite color, meaning it is a combination of colors to make it.  There are many ways to make brown.  You can combine all the colors together, or you can use red and green in specific proportions to make brown.  Brown is the least liked color, according to some, but I love its richness and velvety smoothness.  In languages other than English, brown sounds a lot like our word for coffee.

Blooming Secrets featured these lovely brown tinted flowers.  I am in love with these irises.  Gorgeous.


Landscape Design by Lee has a lovely photo essay on beautiful browns in the garden.


Day to Day Adventures made these easy Low Carb Chimichangas with her son.  Adorable!


Sensible Gardening wrote a wonderful piece about using chocolate brown plants in the garden.  Lovely photographs!


The Freshman Cook has a wonderful recipe for her Acorn Cookies that has the prettiest shade of brown icing ever!


GardenChick has fantastic advice for all of us who are finished with our gardens for the year.  Look for how to turn a brown garden green!


Tikkido has a new Gingerbread for Beginners that is just adorable.  I bought my copy and you should get one, too.  Such a great guide for making gingerbread!


You might remember my brown posts on Homemade Cough Drops.  It was quite the hit!  


Our world is a beautiful place and our colors make it a wondrous place to behold.  Treat it with kindness, after all, it is home to all of us.



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  1. I turn stuff brown in my garden naturally, haha! I have a black thumb!

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  2. Those cookies are definitely the cutest and go with the fall season. This is the cutest monthly round up.

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  3. So many cool ideas! I really want the Gingerbread house guide, I plan to make one this year and never have before!

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  4. I'm loving brown more and more lately! Sometimes it makes me sad that there's no green left once we get to November, but winter's got to but-in somewhere!

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  5. I love brown! Especially in the garden but chocolate is amazing too!

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  6. What a really fun way to celebrate different colors in a variety of ways! Of course, my fave is the chocolate icing because its on cookies (my weakness!) but they all are fabulous!

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  7. Loved your Round Up post Terri...so many great ideas, and glad to be a part of it too!

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  8. Those acorn cookies are so cute! And I'm all about some chimichangas!! Brown is an awesome color!

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  9. I feel like brown is never looked at like this, in such a way of beauty. There's so many beautiful things rounded up here!

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  10. Love the take you took on this color, I just love all the things you found, and those cookies look delicious!

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  11. I think that brown is definitely an overlooked colour. I love the look of the gorgeous tinted brown iris's.

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  12. I am actually very fond of brown. I turn all my plants brown, and most of the time a lot of veggies go brown before I REMEMBER I have them! lol. I think its a great colour - Jeanine

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  13. Brown can be such a pretty color! I love browns mixed with oranges and greens for fall!

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  14. The Gingerbread Guide for Beginners is something I would love to read! The acorn cookies are just too cute:)

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  15. This looks fantastic Terri! Thank you!

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  16. I love those christmas cookies! I can't wait to bake cookies with my mom and sister. It is our tradition every year! I know they're technically acorns but they still work, right? ;)

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  17. This is lovely. Brown is everywhere and it's truly a rich and velvety color. Plus I love a good brown coffee or tea 😊 Those cookies look delish too.

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  18. Homemade cough drops? Now there is something I need to try!! I would never have thought to try that!

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  19. Brown is not my favorite color but it is definitely great for the fall/winter season.

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  20. I really love brown, it is certainly something I see a lot in the winter in Maine :-) But I am also with Stephanie on the coffee and tea!

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