When you walk into Mae Belle Maurin’s Metairie home, dozens of colorful sketches cover her bedroom walls, creating a gallery of sunsets, beaches, landscapes and flowers.

Along the edge of the ceiling, strings of tiny multicolored lights blink off and on.

“My favorite colors are pink and green,” said Maurin, the daughter of Chris and Mae Belle Seghers-Maurin. “Drawing makes me feel calm and relaxed.”

As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, one of Maurin’s sketches, entitled “Swirls,” was featured on the cover of a limited-edition coffee — “Valentina” — produced by Orleans Coffee Company , to recognize Seghers-Maurin, one of its employees and a two-time breast cancer survivor.

“I was shocked,” Seghers-Maurin said of the coffee creation. “I am truly humbled and grateful for

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