Ella LeJeune puts her heart in every one of her creations.

“My son is my inspiration,” LeJeune said. “He’s in Florida with his dad and I can’t wait to see him again and just hug him.”

LeJeune — who uses leftover scrap pieces of electrical wiring from her husband’s completed job sites for her materials — incorporates a copper heart into all of her pieces.

“When he sees the copper hearts in all my paintings and my art, he’ll know the love I have for him,” she said.

LeJeune said copper became her preferred material for her artistic creations because of the beauty in its colors.

“I went to work with my husband and I started looking around at all the colors he used to make electrical outlets work — white and silver and black and gold,” she said. “I’m all about colors and shapes and lines so I held the copper wire and I just thought, ‘This is like pennies. This is money.’ He was going to bring it to the scrap yard and I said I could make something more valuable out of this.”

Slowly but surely, LeJeune started building piece after piece. Now, she’s created 100 pieces of art.

The hard part will be choosing which 12 of those 100 pieces will be on display in the next exhibition of “Currioddities” at the Brimstone Museum.

“I’m just stripping wire everyday and recycling what he was going to bring to the scrap yard,” she said. “It’s not in my hands, it’s not in my head, it’s coming from the heavens. It’s my destiny and my legacy and it just flows.”

She incorporates copper hearts into the wire hangers of her paintings and within the lines of her sculptures.

LeJeune — who is a third-generation artist — said when she looks at a blank canvas, she can already picture the completed work.

“My hand just naturally flows, naturally does it,” she said. “I put power into the art.”

LeJeune’s studio is an outdoor canopy in her backyard. There are no walls, just sunlight.

“I’m working on my grandpa’s table with a stripper that my dad gave me,” she said. “I’m also using my grandma’s paints. I feel like she’s watching over me.”

Her first piece was a spiral sun catcher. From there she moved into stripped copper displays with painted power pole bases.

“I’ve made a pelican, a crawfish with an umbrella, frog, crab and an alligator,” she said.

She’s also expanded her creativity into the written word. Her first children’s book, “Wired Wonders: The Copper Heart Bird Delivery,” tells the story of a mom made of copper who finds a way to get her son made of concrete out of a dark wizard’s tower with the help of  birds. The birds deliver copper hearts to the boy and a lightening strike ultimately allows the mother and son to shine and live the rest of their lives together in Electric City.

“When I met my husband, I was just electrified. In the book he’s Mr. Light Bright because he brightened up my whole world and I want my son to be part of our lives,” she said. “In the book, the boy gets struck by lighting and it melts all of the copper hearts he’s been given into a suit of armor that conducts the electricity through a tunnel so he can come to the Electric City. I’m putting all my energy and all my tears into this.”

The book was released in February. Her second book, “The Cajun ABC’s” is in production now by Wise Publications.

“I’m out here doing my dream, my passion,” she said.

For more information on LeJeune’s artwork, contact her at Ellalejeune91@yahoo.com.