The wait is finally over! Bring home a pair of these beautiful and functional shoes, guaranteed to make children and parents so very "merry" :)   Our shoe designers have been hard at work on the perfect design for a mary jane style shoe for little feet. After much R&D with the toughest playground test subjects we could find, our...

We have a special treat for all of our reptile-animal-print-shoe lovers out there (you know who you are). Tim managed to get his hands on some unique leather hides textured and dyed to resemble snakeskin! We're now excited to offer a special holiday treat: snakeskin print adult Metros shoes and baby Buttercup moccasins: UPDATE May 2015: Sorry, but our adult...

They're finally here... Adult sandals have been on our wish list for a long time. Our shoe designers have been hard at work developing an open toe version of our popular Merry Jane (more complicated than it sounds) and their efforts have now paid off. Our new Adult Solstice Sandal will be available next week on April 16, 2014! The...

Thanks to everyone who participated in our giveaway of the gold star Merry Mocs last week. We were thrilled to hear how excited people were about Tesla and Jodi's creative shoe! As promised, we are now giving away the second pair of Merry Mocs. These moss green shoes feature our soft suede uppers, a cozy sheepskin innersole and the addition...

Followers of our blog will know that we hold occasional Playdays at the Soft Star workshop. These are days when we set work aside and are encouraged to just have fun creating something new with the materials in our shop. At the end of the day we share our projects and the results are always surprising. They not only inspire...

We have a special treat for you this fall. Tim has managed to add a unique material to our shoemaking supplies: chocolate corduroy leather! This soft, cozy material is not made of cotton like most corduroy, but actual suede leather pressed into a ribbed corduroy pattern. It still has the soft feel of suede with the durability of leather for...

The term "Mary Jane" is commonly used to describe a particular style of women’s footwear, but have you ever wondered how this shoe received its name? We found the answer: In 1902, cartoonist Richard Oucault created a comic strip called Buster Brown, which quickly became very popular. The comic portrayed the antics of Buster Brown, a troublesome young boy, and...