Soft Star sandals hit the scene this week in the April-May edition of Fit Pregnancy magazine in their 2007 Buyer's Guide. Featured on the model are our Laguna sandals in lavender. It's always fun to get calls from magazines for product samples-- and even more fun when the articles hit the stands. You can see more of Soft Star in...

Last year we made Kahlil a pair of 'rainbow' moccasins... the right and left shoes had different colors on the fronts and backs. I thought they were great, others disagreed. When I came time to pick out our shoes for the 2007 line, the rainbow moc was the first on my list. Unfortunately they didn't make the cut for our...

When Art Instructor Tonya Gaineystopped by looking for leather scraps - we had no idea what a treat she and her students had in store! Fifty-four students from local Corvallis-area schools poured their artistic energies into creating beautiful leather baskets like the one photographed here! The students participated from: Mountain View Elementary 2nd - 5th grade Hoover Elementary Kindergarten...

Only a couple more weeks? until the newest Soft Star elf will arrive! I spent today organizing all the teeny, tiny baby clothes in her/his dresser-- hard to believe someone can be so small. On top of the dresser we have the tiniest pair of little red Soft Star baby shoes-- the one and only pair of February clearance shoes...

Healthy feet are our passion at Soft Star - and one of the ways that is manifested is on our insistence of sourcing only formaldehyde-free leather. As this is no easy task and something unique about our shoes, I was surprised the other day to run across a claim of a major soft-shoe competitor's website that their shoes are made...

Some of you may remember my post last fall when I talked about Kahlil's knack at kicking off his shoes. He was very skilled at losing the first shoe before I had even gotten the second shoe on. Well, that was then. This is now. Kahlil is a shoe wearer. He will chose a pair of shoes and bring them...

Hi - Elf DeAnn here! For the last 3 weeks I have been on a journey to clean, organize, sort, cut and determine the use of our leather inventory. We have over 46 in stock leather colors/types and several hides of each. There were big pieces, small pieces, beautiful pieces and some pretty homely pieces-- colors everywhere! Even though I...