Soft Star has a growing contingent of barefoot runners knocking on our workshop door looking for footwear. Who are barefoot runners, you ask? Athletes who run either completely barefoot, or with some type of minimal shoe. Check out Donald's blog entry titled "The Barefoot Revolution" for a great overview (see his 8/27 post). Donald is an ultra-marathoner and journalist who...

Workshop tours are part of the daily fun at Soft Star Shoes. We try to send our guests home with mementos or (at the least) leather scraps - but now we can offer another fun option - postcards home! If a visitor would like to send a Soft Star postcard to their favorite friend or family member - they just...

One of my favorite additions to the workshop shop this year are the two gorgeous pots of honeysuckle outside our front door. The littlest elves love to pull off blossoms and suck on them, and they do smell sooooo beautiful! Tivi says they smell "like summer" - plain and simple. Soft Star Shoes is a family friendly company located in...

We have new neighbors!! Our workshop is on the upper floor of a 100 year old coffee warehouse. A fabulous music store (The Troubadour Music Center) recently moved in downstairs... so now we are treated to strains of violin, piano, flute, accordions, drums, harmonicas, guitars and even singing throughout the the day. They also have a workshop for instrument repair...

Inspired by an idea we came across in a book, my 5yr old daughter Tivi and I decided to try our hand at creating shoes with our own personalized drawings. Armed with 18 different colored Sharpie markers, we each designed a pair. Tivi initially started thinking she would do a full color fill.... but after one back on one shoe...

We got a special request in to make some patriotic shoes for the upcoming holiday. Our newest elves - Hava and Sherilyn - took up this challenge and created these great little shoes. Sherilyn made these sweet little Roo moccasins - Royal in the front and Red in the back. The button is a special double star inlay and the...

We were luck in that the Associated Waldorf Schools of North America held their summer conference in Portland Oregon this year. Since Portland is just a hop and skip away, Soft Star decide to participate as a vendor. We had a great time introducing many teachers and administrators to Soft Star Shoes as well as putting faces to some of...