My mother, Mary L. Murphy, crowned Ms 3D at Emporia State Teacher's College now Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas when she was a student in the 50's as a Speech and Drama Major. Dear Readers, Nobody was a bigger fan of the big screen than my mother, you see her dream was to become a movie star. She bravely traveled by train to Hollywood back in the 50's to see if she could get discovered. You can read all about it my book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide …
The Pulpwood Queen features Author, R. Scott Boyer in “Feather Your Nest”!
Dear Reader, Pulpwood Queen Author R. Scott Boyer attended his first Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend this past January 2020 in historic Jefferson, Texas. I had a wonderful time meeting Scott and towards the end of the weekend he purchased on of my Alcohol Ink paintings on metal to have sent back to his home in Los Angeles. This is Scott's story. Kathy: Scott, you will be my my very first Pulpwood Queen "Feather Your Nest: blog for September. Tell me how we each came into each …
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The Pulpwood Queen Gives a Birthday Thank You and More Exciting NEWS!
Dear Readers, First of all THANK YOU to all who wished me a very Happy Birthday. I also will tell we raised in honor of my birthday well over $1,000 to the Pat Conroy Literary Center and honestly we have one day left to contribute. If everyone of my members and authors would just donate $1 we could quadruple this fundraiser to the best literacy program ever, one of my charities of choice! Check out my NEW The Pulpwood Queen Film Club Facebook group page and new youtube …
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The Pulpwood Announces 2022 Girlfriend Weekend Featured Authors and Presenters!
Dear Readers! Check out so far our CONFIRMED Keynote Authors and Presenters for our up and coming 2022 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Girlfriend Weekend, location to be announced at https://www.facebook.com/Pulpwoodqueen/media_set?set=a.10219958205440275&type=3 <iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPulpwoodqueen%2Fposts%2F10219965623945733&width=500" width="500" height="708" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" …
The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” Blog on ART!
Dear Readers, Whether you "Feather Your Nest" with the "Dreaming of Italy" Alcohol Ink and Acrylic painting that my dearest friend, client and Pulpwood Queen Leader Margie Dilday of The Pulpwood Queens of West Monroe, Louisiana did with the purchase of this painting above by me, or "Feather Your Nest" with your art or others, do note that art is personal. Showcasing art is a way to convey your own signature style in your home. One of of kind anything gives anything a more statement …
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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” Blog Featuring Murphy’s Law!
Dear Readers, Welcome to my little cabin in the woods, Murphy's Law. This is where I live at Holly Lake Ranch, Texas and where I have added my Art Studio by enclosing my former carport, shed, into my glass enclosed artist working space. Today I will in my "Feather Your Nest" I will focus on the outside of my home as that is important too! Thank you for coming by for a visit! Here is one of the wreaths I have created from my forest finds to decorate my home. This bird feeder greets …
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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” and Ironically, with CATS!
Dear Readers, Today's post on "Feather Your Nest" is all about cats. Mine in fact, Ferrelina my gray and white rescued ferrel kitten and Rush, my sleek little tabby also a rescue. I have had so many pets through the years, dogs, cats, and my daughters had lizards, turtles, frogs, once a flying squirrel, hermit crabs, if they could catch it, we had a new pet. Once Lainie came in the house wearing lizard earrings as each one she caught clamped down on an ear lob. It was pretty alarming to …
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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” Blog Features Lighting!
Dear Readers! Today on my "Feather Your Nest" I am going to talk about lighting in my little cabin in the woods, Murphy's Law. Most of the lighting in my home comes from either unique finds at estates sales, antique and resale shops, but mostly designer Angie Hudson of Made in the Shade in Jefferson, Texas! I love her lamps and light features so much they are throughout my home. Pictured above is the birdcage light fixture that I embellished, because I can never leave well …
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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” with Travel Souvenirs!
Dear Readers, No matter where I go, I always bring back something that reminds me of that trip. Above, these are little raku ceramic pots that I have picked up from galleries and museums that I have visited all in my little cabin in the woods, Murphy's Law as I "Feather My Nest". This is an African doll that I picked up at the Chicago Art Institute on one of my visits that I have had now for over 25 years. I often go to estate sales and find the most incredible art work …
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The Pulpwood Queens Talks about Armchair Reading on “Feather Your Nest”!
Dear Readers, Today I wish to talk about "Feathering Your Nest" with books. I have armchair traveled around the world reading especially during this time of social distancing. Above you will see some of the reads and books of my now fascination with all the storytelling of India cinema all displayed on my living room coffee table. I love the colorful world of Bollywood, the costumes, the cinematography, the dance, and songs, but especially the storytelling. My dear friend, …
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The Pulpwood Queen Launches “Feather Your Nest”!
Dear Readers! Today I am launching a NEW blog called "Feather Your Nest" which will be a monthly blog on my Pulpwood Queen authors, writers, book club members, and art clients homes that have purchased my art for their homes. We will get to know how they "Feather Their Nest" as we learn of their decorating styles, their collections, whether art, books, or from their travels. We will learn of their favorite books, their libraries, and what books they may have written or are writing. And the …
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The Pulpwood Queen Film Club Kicks Off TONIGHT, Saturday, August 15, 2020!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, Readers and Film buffs! I have just created on Facebook a NEW way to have some fun during our time of social distancing with the launch of The Pulpwood Queen Film Club, please join and bring all your friends. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112701/ Tonight at 6:30 p.m, I will be doing a LIVE Facetime at 6:30 p.m. Central Standard Time as we Kick Off our very first Watch Party for our first film to watch together "Cold Comfort Farm". Unfortunately the …
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The Pulpwood Queen Talks about her Favorite and Most Despicable! Book Characters!
Dear Readers, A question was posed to me this morning of which I was tagged by my friend Kristen Chambers as follows. "Reading friends, what literary characters come to mind when asked which one(s) do you love? And which do you loathe? I don’t mean how well or how poorly written the characters are. I’m talking about the ones who make your heart swell, who you’d admire if they were to come to life, who you’d want for a neighbor, best friend or mate; and the ones who are so despicable …
The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” Blog Coming Soon!
I had to share this as working on a NEW monthly blog that I will be posting on our Pulpwood Queen Book Club Member and Author's homes at www.thepulpwoodqueens.com blog page. As I have been selling my paintings, I have been in awe of the homes that my artworks are going into for their new homes. Who wants to see some incredible homes? Home is where we "feather our nest" with our libraries, our collections, and featured artworks all surrounded by the things we love. …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares an Outstanding Art Teacher Story!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2qOOqgP8pw&vl=en Dear Readers, "Like stars on earth" every child is special, I love this phrase as so very true. Most of my adult life I have worked with children whether as Sunday School teacher, Youth Group leader, Youth choir director, Girl Scouts, or doing story times and events when I was Children's Manager and Buyer for an independent bookstore. I have won twice, from the National Women's Book Council, the Lucile Michele Pannell Award for …
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The Pulpwood Queen Champions Women’s Stories!
Dear Readers! I am passionate about many things, books, art, fashions, decorating, collecting, theater, music, films and breaking stereotypes. When I wrote my first book "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing Book Sharing Guide to Life" I talked at great length about not judging a book by it's cover. I was interviewed once for a radio program in New York via phone from my hair salon/book store, Beauty and the Book. He kept making remarks, like, "Are you chewing gum as you backcomb that …
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The Pulpwood Queen’s Narrow Escape This Saturday Morning!
Dear Readers, Before dawn I packed a bag, grabbed my laptop, and a bag of books as I was traveling to my daughters to pet sit her animals until the first of the month. I left at dark as they were to leave around 6:00 a.m. for a trip so driving is a great time for me to ponder life's big questions. As I went around a blind curve driving the speed limit suddenly in front of me was a multiple truck, boat, and car wreck. No time to hardly hit the …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares a Great Story from Author/Songwriter Layng Martine, Jr.
RIDING OUT OF THE BOX When my wife Linda was crippled in a car accident years ago, we had to adapt. Quickly. After the shock, the tears, the fear and the steep learning curve subsided, instead of thinking of all the things we could no longer do together...hike, ride bikes, play tennis etc...we began to think of all the things that were still possible for us. Chief among those possibilities were car rides out into the country to towns and villages with cafes, bookstores, local bakeries. We’d …
The Pulpwood Queen on her Forever Quest for the NEXT BEST READ!
Dear Readers! During this time of social distancing during the Covid - 19 global pandemic I have been on a mission to read, write, paint, create, feather my nest, and to educate, enlighten, and entertain myself to keep me fully engaged in turning a negative into a positive. I have learned how to be alone with myself. A daunting task because I am no easy person to be with, I can't sit still. I need work, good work to keep me busy and have found it so never been more productive in my …
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The Pulpwood Queen Wants You to Watch This Film, “Billu”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjT_s3m6t2Y&list=PLJ7Ozx-BB0y0EqP8TJNx3OGQG3L7AdN5U&index=20&t=0s&app=desktop Dear Readers, I watched this film some time ago and shortly after one of it's stars, Irrfan Khan, died suddenly and I have been mourning ever since. You may recognize him from the film, "Slumdog Millionaire" but every role he has played is sheer gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_agFp1PMnM I want you all to watch this film either on youtube.com or …
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The Pulpwood Queen Presents Heidi Surber Teichgraeber!
Dear Readers! This is the first of a series of videos that we have done this week . Facebook has made some changes so trying to figure out the new way to share so hope this works! https://www.facebook.com/stefania.chance/videos/10219378264469650 Kathy L. Murphy Artist/Author/Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs and Author of "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" P.O. Box 1220 Hawkins, Texas 75765 - …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares her Valentine Writing Room!
Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author, Mary Ann Henry wanted to know where I wrote at home and this is my home office in all it’s creative chaotic glory! This is where I email you, send my blog posts, and work on my three books in progress! All these cherry reds to rose pinks get me fired up. Create the space that get your creative juices flowing! This is my Valentine Writing Room and my life’s blood pouring out on the page word by word to you! This is my Valentine year …
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The Pulpwood Queen Wants to Connect Through the Sharing of Stories!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loGt03Bodo0&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0-YAHZH7xZ4Vo8tCeLY8IeUCV2I-OOoU_VBiVirjY2BF7k0WXFDc1RFl4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhvoF2E7tG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ABS5WCnZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlqXBBceJ2k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATNEB6X110E&t=14s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ9fQpwTQMk&t=10s …
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The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes All New Authors and Members To Our Book Club!
Dear Readers, During this Coronavirus pandemic we have had a considerable rise in New Pulpwood Book Club Members and those joining all my Facebook pages including Breathless Bubbles & Books. Let me begin with our story so we can all be on the same page on exactly what is The Pulpwood Queens and yes, Timber Guys Book Clubs, the largest "meeting and discussing" book club in the world. Our motto is "where Tiaras (or Crowns) are mandatory and reading our good books is the ONLY RULE." …
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The Pulpwood Queen Has Breaking News Regarding 2022 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend!
BREAKING NEWS! The Pulpwood Queens Book Club annual convention to restart January 2022 on Martin Luther King Weekend has now partnered with The Pat Conroy Literary Center and The Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Each will have their own panel and so very, very excited. You can check out both their websites at www.patconroyliterarycenter.org Jonathan Haupt, The Executive Director of The Pat Conroy Literary …
The Pulpwood Queen Announces January 2021 Official Pulpwood Queen Book Club Selections!
https://www.facebook.com/IamSRK/photos/a.745346912158241/1379643965395196/?type=3&theater With every visionary I have found that all the success they have in this life they earned it through their hard, hard work. Take the responsibility to be what you want to see and earn it. Work hard and read. It's all about the story. So for 2021, I, as the founder of The Pulpwood Queen International Book Club will be selecting a book each of the 12 months as a book club selection but also to be …
The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes Guest Blogger, Author, Connor Garrett!
Writing a Fantasy Novel with My Dad During Protests, Power Outages, and a Pandemic By Connor Judson Garrett Twenty-seven years ago, I met Kevin N. Garrett, a man that would one day become my writing partner. He also happens to be my father. When I was a kid, he used to tell my older brother and I his mashed-up remixes of fairy tales, such as Little Blue Riding Hood and The Medicinal Tequila, and Robin Hood and The Three Little Pigs. After the Harry Potter series …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares her Love for “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD07PKGvh6Y&t=448s Dear Readers! When I was a child I watched this film and it had a profound effect on me. First of all, the child actress Mary Badham portrayed in the character of Scout reminded me so much of myself. I was such a tomboy and still am. I would have given anything to wear overalls to school but school policy was little girls had to wear dresses. So I totally related to this character but then I got caught up in the story. I grew up in a …
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The Pulpwood Queen in Planning Stages of Going more DIVERSE and GLOBAL!
Dear Readers, Besides all I do, this week's focus is on global literacy. I am already hard at work to get more people on board our Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading Nation and to find more books of diversity of from writers and authors around the world. This coming year's theme is "A Whole New World" and get ready for some exciting news as we proceed into our 21st year of reading altogether as Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guy Book Club readers. To join go to …
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