A woman with glasses smiles next to a sheep with woolly white and black face, inside a barn or petting zoo area.

Hello!

My name is Heidi.

Here’s a bit about me.

  • An original artwork collage by Heidi Leugers of overlapping paperwork, including a vintage stock broker's registration form with the iconic Manhattan Twin Towers skyline in the background.

    In my first ‘real’ job, I received training in the North Tower of the World Trade Center to be a stockbroker. A folklore story unfolded when I was "broker of the day" and a man arrived with a stack of paper stock certificates mysteriously discovered under his deceased father's mattress.

  • Page from a book titled 'Cycle-Logical Art' by Linda Weintraub on recycling and eco-art, with a menu of artists and an introduction discussing cycle logic in in art making.

    Ten years after I quit a graduate program in western art history, the results of my zero waste creative work and practice were published in Cycle-Logical Art, Recycling Matters for Eco-Art, by Linda Weintraub.

    I also helped Linda launch her book series by creating a zero-waste booth at the College Art Association Conference in 2006 and 2007.

  • Line drawing of a sheep's face with contour lines created by Heidi Leugers using a computer mouse, circa 1997.

    My sheep logo was created over 25 years ago and born pixel-by-pixel using my hand to click each pixel into visibility, with a computer mouse, in ClarisWorks, an early innovative canvas for every person’s inner artist.

  • Person in red jacket and green beanie with sunglasses launching a pink and black kite on a cloudy day at the beach.

    My preferred way to lose track of time is to fly my seven-foot, hot-pink kite with the sometimes sun, always wind and likely clouds at the Oregon Coast!

  • Ancient castle ruins made of stone with multiple towers and windows, under a partly cloudy sky.

    In 2016 a gentleman sat next to me on a private bus departing from Heidelberg, Germany. We had never met in-person before. Come to find out, he had carried Reclaimed Wool holiday ornaments in his Athens, GA shop for three years!

  • Lavender field with rows of purple flowers under a blue sky with scattered clouds, trees and distant mountains.

    I gather lavender, collect 25 million-year-old clam fossils, hag stones, agates and jaspers by hand – a returnable, planet-friendly collection of beautiful, earth-made material – that cannot carry hot food from oven to table.

  • Graphic with the words "Enjoy!" in large blue script, "Reclaimed" in black cursive, a minimalist line drawing of Reclaimed Wool's logo, and text "zero-waste".

    I have shipped tens of thousands of orders for my work. And each order I’ve ever sent, ships with a heartfelt thank you, and this invitation: ENJOY!

I LOVE Creating, Providing and Cultivating:

  • Ordinary items of high value and excellent quality that are made to last

  • Experiences that bring out the inner artist in each of us. When Joseph Beuys said “Everyone is an Artist” and “Creativity is Capital” it made sense to me.

  • Needle felting skills in innovative ways to help people experience their best creative self. I love to learn and learn how you learn!

Display of wool potholders hanging on vertical wooden rods at an craft fair booth, with a sign above that reads 'WOOD POT HOLDERS' and 'Mosaic Pairs $26'.
Person holding a felted pumpkin with a green felted stem.
Person with glasses and earrings wearing a red and yellow felted flower hair accessory on their head.

To Everyone who supports my Work, my Art, and my Zero Waste Imagination – Thank You!

You help make

“Reclaimed Wool - zero waste since 1998”

REAL.