Hannah Wheeler

Gotta love a finished quilt 💕✨ (Lone Star quilt for my niece! Finished this afternoon!)

Today in Louisiana has the prettiest voting stickers: early voting starts today and they have a new sticker design! I always try to vote on the very first day of early voting and this is the busiest I’ve ever seen it!

Here’s my own pic from the MIA where you can zoom to see the texture of rhe rye seeds on the wings plus the placard with the materials and artist’s description.

The 10 year old designed a quilt based on her favorite painting at New Orleans Museum of Art, (Scramble: Ascending Yellow Values, Descending Spectrum by Frank Stella, acrylic on canvas, 1978) and had me make it for her therapist! (Her fabric choices were based on what she liked, not the color!)

One of my favorite things about this time of year is helping my kid find the Orion constellation every morning at the bus stop, and noticing it going just a little bit higher in the sky each morning.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -James Baldwin- (Untitled sketch: Pen and ink, pencil, and colored pencil, 2026)

6year old, 12 year old, me. They're making a tiny round gluten free challah each and I'm making one big enough to share with the three who didn't want to make their own 😆😄

Wayyyy too many books to list them all but I WORE OUT my copy of Heidi in elementary school from reading it and re-reading it so often. (I guess it maybe doesn’t fit because I don’t know that it changed my life? But it was a friend when I didn’t really have many of those back then.)

Share a book with someone, share a song with someone, quilt a “coat of many colors” for someone, choose grace and kindness and love in memory of Dolly Parton today 💕

It was our priest’s birthday this week and of COURSE my kids decided that his favorite Pokemon MUST be Popplio 😆😄

This #caturday Ramón is pretty sure he would do a better job on this quilt than I am😆 (aka fabric everywhere on the desk, nothing cut yet. What do you mean this isn’t a new cat bed?)

When the new school rules call for clear backpacks but kids can have a very small “privacy pouch”- We couldn’t find anything the right size sooo I made up a pattern and got it done! Small quilted zip pouch- 6.5 in X 4.5 in- I love the fabric she picked for it too 🐦‍⬛

Miiiight be time to retire this colored pencil soon 😆😆

Happy #caturday from Sassy! (Not my cat, my sister’s best friend’s cat.) (Colored pencil on paper, 2026)

“The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.” - Dorothy Day- (Pen and ink, 2026)

In case you missed this from me late yesterday.

Gluten free and vegan Van Gogh inspired birthday spice cake! Color matching frosting is difficult and so is painting with it sooo I went a lot more just loosely inspired than I had planned 😆 (Flowers.Frosting on cake.2026 😆 loosely inspired by van gogh’s Vase with Zinnias, oil on canvas, 1886)

Happy Father’s Day to one of the best 💕 (My dad is a park ranger who teaches people all about nature: how to enjoy it, learn more about it, preserve it, and protect it!) Dad, pencil and colored pencil on paper, 2026

Well that bird feeder wasn’t *quite* as empty as I’d thought 😆

Ok, Saint Jude is a commonly requested saint so I have a drawing from about two years ago, about one year ago, and today. Not to brag but wow it's nice to see the improvement from actually drawing so often, when I'd had to stop for so long being busy with the kids!(each about 1hr drawing)

“You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.” (Marsha P. Johnson sketch, Colored pencil on paper, 2026)

Juniper Blessing (Colored pencil on paper, 2026)

Morning harvest in my home garden 🌱💕 (Nasturtium leaves and flowers, cucumber 🥒, jalapeños 🌶️ purple bell pepper 🫑, radishes 🫜, and purple beans. 🫘)

Small first harvests for the church food bank garden, but I know soon we’ll have more cucumbers than we can give away 🌱

“When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.” -Audre Lorde- (Colored pencil and pastel and pencil on paper, 2026)

Go vote Louisiana! Unless you have an x-wing fighter that you’ve not shared with the class yet, it’s our only hope of defeating the dark side! You know the storm troopers and Vader are definitely all out there voting. The resistance needs to show up in big numbers too 😁 #teamdorkside

My fellow Louisiana peeps-super important that you know that there are other things on the ballot (amendments on all, local etc depending on your district) that have NOT been canceled. Don’t let the confusion over this make you miss out on voting! These amendments are the usual Landry nonsense…

Today for #caturday: my current favorite cat sketch- my friend’s cat crossed the rainbow bridge last week and I had this thought of him peacefully sitting in the doorway, basking in the love he knew in this life as he prepares to step through to the rainbow bridge.

Tomorrow kids get to wear their “favorite autism awareness shirt” to school, so they each designed one for me to make. (Using clip art, they didn’t draw the actual pictures.) I love them!!

Threatening that "a whole civilization will die tonight" is the literal definition of genocide" "the deliberate & systematic killing or persecution of a large # of people from a particular national or ethnic group w/ the aim of destroying that nation or group." www.alieward.com/ologies/geno...

I think I won the Easter Egg Hunt 🪺 😍

Stormy day outside #caturday inside

Love Kindness Peace Hope 🖍️

Happy #caturday from my friend’s kitties! (Pencil and colored pencil on sketchbook paper)

Love and joy are always more beautiful than hate 🌈 💕

Lots of different hamantaschen flavors this year, all gluten free and vegan so safe for all the kids to have 😄 It’s been a long month already, definitely needing some treats! (Funfetti, sunbutter and jam, raspberry jam, chocolate chip, “cheesecake,” and raspberry “cheesecake,”)

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