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Other Cool Blogs: Children Board Books

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Another blog recommendation for children’s literature by way of the A-to-Z blogging challenge (http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/). I previously recommended a source for children non-fiction books in February (Other Cool Blogs: Children Non-Fiction Recommendations 2/26/2026). This time one of the bloggers, Laura, provided a list of Board Books for Babies. I chose the COLORS board books as the blog of choice, but they are all amazing!

If you are looking for books for your child or if members of your friendship circle have been adding children to the population, you might want to give a look at the full month of books for ideas and recommendations. The blogger does have associate links to Amazon, so if you are going to buy the books, be sure to go through her so she gets some of the benefit.

2026 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Colors

More Memes for the World (Part 4)

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I like to create memes. There are the writing memes and then are others. Most are book quotes, but some are political and others are just cool thoughts I wanted to put on pictures.

Previous batches can be found: Art: Political Memes (1/31/2023),  More Memes for the World (10/31/2023), More Memes for the World Part 2 (10/29/2024), C is for Content Creation (4/5/2025), U is for Utterance (4/24/2025)), More Memes for the World Part 3 (7/29/2025).

General memes

     

Book Quotes from various Books:

                                                                                                       

                                         

And a special Dungeon Crawler Carl Collection:

                                       

Other Cool Blogs: Cotton is King

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GW Researcher Identifies Oldest Textile Dyed Indigo

With my historic embroidery, for a while the research was “linen and wool, silk when they could get it, but cotton is a modern fabric.” Well, cotton has existed for a long time, why not cotton for embroidery – it is my DMC floss – I WANT IT!!!

Cotton requires hot temperatures and the research was being done in England where wool and linen grew. India was where Cotton was king and until the East India Trading Company started moving it, not much happen fabric-wise in Europe with cotton. But in India, the cotton embroidery, fabric prints, and weaves are amazing throughout their long history.

During the A-to-Z challenge, one of the bloggers did twenty-six days of FABRIC!!! So beautiful. My favorite, of course, is the cotton (https://how-would-you-know.com/a-to-z-challenge-2026-c-fabrics-and-king-cotton/), but other topics about materials and weaves Andrew Wilson covered during the month are equally interesting.

Check them all out here: https://how-would-you-know.com/a-to-z-2026/