In the Workshop

The happenings in the Soft Star workshop.

  1. Workshop Tour with Barefoot Ted McDonald

    Barefoot Ted McDonald will be stopping by Soft Star next week for a tour of the workshop. We are busy making some extra wide RunAmocs for him to try on while here. We are thrilled he could squeeze us in between his busy speaking appointments and hope we can treat him to some Corvallis sights […]

  2. SCRAP-ing our leather

    This past Saturday I dropped off our first leather donation to the SCRAP organization in Portland. They were excited to get the leather and sheepskin scraps and I was thrilled to give it to them. They said leather is always a popular material with the teachers and artists that make up much of the SCRAP […]

  3. What happened to Minimal Packaging?

    Soft Star has always had an option for customers to choose”minimal packaging” as part of their checkout process on the Internet. This meant that instead of having your shoes packed in a branded Soft Star gift box AND a mailing box, your shoes would simply be put directly in the mailing box (like this picture). […]

  4. Reducing our Environmental Footprint

    The Elves got this certificate in the mail this week. It made us feel good about participating in the Blue Sky program offered through Pacific Power. According to this certificate, we kept over 3.5 tons of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere last year. YEA!!! Soft Star Shoes is a family friendly company […]

  5. Batman Visits the Elves

    Batman Visits the Elves

    We were VERY lucky to get a visit from a superhero today. Batman and Robin stopped in at the shop to make sure there were no bad guys hanging around. After checking that all was okay at Soft Star, the caped crusader zoomed off in the Batmobile to fight crime at the toy store down […]

  6. The Elves want to go green(er)!

    This week we had Julie from Allied Waste come talk to us about recycling. Julie was impressed with our shop… everything from using reusable cups/plates to us sorting our recycling. We had a handful of items we asked her about… can colored paper go in ‘office’ recycling? Or should it go in co-mingled? (It can […]

  7. Biking with Coffee

    We recently added a new benefit at Soft Star Shoes where we provide employees who use bicycle transportation a monthly bike maintenance allowance. I have always been impressed with how dedicated Hava is to biking to work each day, but yesterday she really surprised me when I saw her pull up with a full cup […]

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