Little elves Tivi & Cruz were delighted this past weekend to have Grandma visit from Wisconsin! Here they are on the way to American Dream for pizza. While visiting the workshop - Grandma / Mom / Judy tested out all our new adult boot styles and sandals we have in development for this summer and fall. She gave the new...

Author Bruce Wolk recently published his resource book directed to USA parents looking to purchase locally made products. Soft Star Shoes was featured as one of 400 companies in the book - which you can learn more about by clicking the photo to the left. The current economic issues have led people from all countries look at economic and political...

Little Noah and friend stopped by last week on St. Patrick's Day all decked in green to pick up their custom sandals for a warm weather vacation. Green must have been on his Mom's mind the previous week when she designed them... I couldn't resist a photo! Tim is looking on. Soft Star Shoes is a family friendly company located...

Soft Star Shoes is now proudly 100% powered by solar and wind! Actually, we have been for a full 5 months now - but it has taken me a while to get around to writing this blog entry. I got a little nudge to write it this week when an EPA report was issued ranking our little town of Corvallis...

It is so fun to live and work in a college town. Right now the town is buzzing with the great team work by the Oregon State Basketball team, coached by Craig Robinson. As a new coach, he is creating a bit of Cinderella story - going from no conference wins last year to a competitive season this year and...

We have received a lot of worried calls and emails from customers over the past few weeks wondering if Soft Star Shoes will be shutting our doors in response to the new Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. This new legislature goes into effect February 10th and requires anyone who makes children's products to provide independent third party laboratory testing (and...

It is always so much fun when you find your shoes featured in magazines! I came home to find a new issue of Kiwi magazine in our mailbox and when I plopped the pile of mail on the kitchen counter, the magazine flipped open to the page below with our little white sandals. My first thought was "Wow... those look...