National Pet Day is April 11, 2015! Here at the Softstar workshop, we consider ourselves animal lovers. Last year our whole staff spent a day volunteering for our local Safe Haven Humane Society, many of our Playday projects revolve around treats for our pets and animals are always welcome in our shop—even though they hold up our production when all our seamstresses...

Is your baby fascinated by the television? Parenting is hard, period. You have to pick your battles, trust your gut, and above all advocate for your child. So far I think Michael and I have held our own. Sage is a home birth, breastfed, cloth diaper wearing, co-sleeping crunchy Oregon baby. In my 8 months as a mom, especially as...

Where do your Softstars take you? We have asked this question throughout the years and many customers have answered. We’ve heard countless stories—and seen many breathtaking photos—about adventures they’ve had in our shoes. In fact, that’s how our RunAmoc line was born: customers began telling us stories of running long races in our moccasins and that got us thinking! Most...

It may not seem like it in some of the colder parts of the country (I'm looking at you, Boston), but spring is officially here! Slowly but surely, eggs are cracking, bees are buzzing and cherry blossoms are fluttering through the air. Here in Oregon, we customarily have eight or so months of rainy season in the fall and winter...

We bid farewell to a very creative elf yesterday. Keoni, one of our trusty and talented seamstresses (or as he called himself, a seamster) will soon be finishing school and has left Soft Star to start the next stage of his life. His last day at our shop was yesterday, and when we opened the doors this morning we found...

We were very excited this week to receive a special submission to our monthly fan photo drawing. Rhonda from Umatillo, Florida has a son who was raised in Soft Star shoes and he is soon expecting his first son... who already has his first pair of Soft Stars! Rhonda is not only a long-time Soft Star customer and fan, but she...

We had a special guest at our workshop last week. Mikko, a long-time customer from Finland, came to visit the elves! Mikko's RunAmocs on one of his colder running days in Finland: -25°C (-13°F) Several years ago, Mikko went on a search to find natural, minimalist shoes for himself and his family. After discovering Soft Star, he quickly became a...