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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]