Elf Shelley

Happy New Year to our wonderful Softstar followers! Like so many of us are doing as we kick off 2018, you may be looking at your life and reflecting on what is and isn’t working for you, what habits you want to drop or adopt, and what you hope to accomplish in the year ahead. […]

As the winter solstice passes us by and the brightness hangs on a bit more each day, it’s the perfect time to look back on the bright spots of the year behind us. Join us in this retrospective of 2017. Phew—what a year it has been! Out with the Old, in with the New The […]

St. Nick’s Day Shoes are a fun tradition! Shoes are set out the evening before St. Nick’s Day for little gifts to be found the next morning.

During summer, so many of us are constantly outdoors partaking in activities from hiking and camping to gardening and yard work. But as we all settle into the cozy comforts of autumn, with the daylight hours creeping ever-shorter, it’s easy to fall into a pattern of hunkering down indoors. With the holidays right around the […]

  Updated October 2020: The Sparky slipper has been discontinued. If you are looking for slippers for your children, please consider our Roo moccasins. We have some warm, fuzzy news for you, friends. Just in time for fall and winter, we’re now making our ultra-cozy Fireside slippers in kids’ sizes! Our kids’ version, appropriately called […]

Have you ever had that one special item of clothing or pair of shoes you felt like you couldn’t live without? A well-worn sweatshirt, perhaps, that fits perfectly and represents the ultimate in comfort for you? For Amanda, a friend of mine and fellow Softstar devotee, her handmade leather Roo moccasins are just such a […]

For many moons our community has been lit up with anticipation for this month’s historic total solar eclipse, and it’s almost here! Softstar headquarters and our surrounding community of Philomath, Oregon, are lucky enough to be right in the coveted path of totality. This means that on the morning of August 21 we will get […]