Halloween was a STRANGE day for the Elves this year.... we had some naughty spirits in the workshop last Tuesday. Our beloved "clicker" machine was the first victim. Our 8 ton Hudson Clicker press is a hydraulic press that we use to "click" or "cut" out all the pieces of our Soft Star Shoes. On […]

Kahlil has posed quite a challenge. I meet new people and they ask what I do. I tell them I make baby shoes they smile and glance at Kahlil's feet. At this point their eyebrows raise since they can't help but notice my son is barefoot. Of course there is nothing wrong with being barefoot […]

By popular reqeust, we hope to introduce a fun, new Mary Jane style by the end of this month. We have been prototyping a couple different designs on our own kids for comfort/fit and have the basic patterns ready, but would love some input on the finishing touches. If you feel like sticking your finger […]

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 […]

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 […]

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'... […]

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 […]