Softstar Blog
Treating Bunions Without Surgery: Easier Than You Think
Treating Bunions Without Surgery: Easier Than You Think
How Fast Do Kids' Feet Grow?
How Fast Do Kids' Feet Grow?
Why Do Shoes Smell, and What Can You Do About It?
Why Do Shoes Smell, and What Can You Do About It?

Recent Posts

  1. Favorite DYO's is inspiring

    We started the Favorite Design Your Own page about a month and a half ago. Since then, the Soft Star Elves have posted over a dozen favorite shoes and moccasins. We get so excited by our customer's creativity we just had to share. And now a really cool thing has happened. A couple orders have come through recently that have...
  2. 78 and Counting!! Calling All Pancake Owners...

    Some of you may be familiar with the Playful Pancake cat toys made by our 7 year old friend Cassidy. She uses Soft Star Shoes leather scraps to craft and sell toys for a charity called Kids for Kids. Each "pancake" purchase is a donation equal to one goat which are given to families in Sudan. Soft Star donates the...
  3. Experiment results... Sort of

    Well, fall showed up quickly here in Oregon -- it was 85 and sunny one day, two days later it was 65 and rainy. Since cool, rainy weather can last until May I decided I better wrap up the sheepskin fleece experiment for now. A quick recap of the experiment before I get into 'results'... I'm trying to answer the...
  4. Experiment in progress

    Our moccasins have sheepskin in them and we always get asked, "Isn't that too hot for summer?" Well, let's find out! Kahlil needed a new pair of moccasins, so I decided to do a little experiment. I had two pairs of mocs made... one with sheepskin and one without. He is going to wear one moc from each pair for...
  5. Pluto - we'll miss you!

    Weird, but true. Last week when the IAU announced that Pluto was being stripped of it's planetary status, we also sold the last pair of red "Plutos" from our clearance shoe sale. (The popular Pluto pictured here) It was my personal favorite of last season's lineup-- and the coincidence struck a strange note. Were we too hasty to pull Pluto...
  6. Need some inspiration?

    This week I set up a 'favorite DYO' page... our favorite shoes and moccasins designed by customers. Every so often we have a pair of shoes or mocs come through the shop that everybody just ohhs and ahhs over. We all want to hold them and look at them in good light. And then we started thinking, why not share...
  7. Every Shoe Tells a Story

    This week the National Geographic magazine published a story by Cathy Newman: "Every Shoe Tells a Story". The article spans the most extreme luxury Manolo Blahnik heels to the most primitive fiber-woven sandals found in Oregon from 8500BC. (It was nice to see that Oregon was always a mecca for shoe-making -- they found hundreds of pairs stacked in the...

Products 540 to 546 of 558 total

Page