1. Show Your Team Colors! Tim's Special OSU Beaver Football Shoes

    Show Your Team Colors! Tim's Special OSU Beaver Football Shoes

    It's college football season! Our cozy town of Corvallis, Oregon is just a small dot on most maps, but when our local Oregon State Beavers play a home football game we start to look like like a major metropolitan city. The streets become flooded with our team's orange and black colors as every fan within a 100-mile radius heads into...
  2. Introducing SUPER SWATCHES for Local Soft Star Customers

    Introducing SUPER SWATCHES for Local Soft Star Customers

    Customer service elf Dina has been hard at work on a new project for the showroom in our Corvallis, Oregon workshop. As our company has grown, so has our product line and leather selection. When we were a smaller company, our leathers were divided into simply smooth or suede varieties. Now, however, we have thin suede for kids' shoes, thicker...
  3. Softstar Talks Sustainability

    Softstar Talks Sustainability

    We had the honor this week to present our workshop's sutatinable practices at the quarterly meeting of the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition. Soft Star co-owner Tricia Salcido discusses sustainable practices for businesses. The Corvallis Sustainability Coalition is a network of organizations and individual volunteers in Corvallis, Oregon, who are working together to create a sustainable community. It includes businesses, non-profits, faith communities...
  4. Elves Remember 2013  - Year in Review

    Elves Remember 2013 - Year in Review

    It's been a busy year at the Soft Star workshop. Before we ring in the new year, we'd like to share with you the significant memories and adventures that affected our workshop and community in 2013.   Elves Volunteer at SAGE Garden Last spring, we had our first Soft Star volunteer day helping out at the local SAGE community garden...
  5. Lincoln School Carolers Spread Holiday Cheer at Soft Star

    Lincoln School Carolers Spread Holiday Cheer at Soft Star

    We had some excitement recently when fourth and fifth graders from Lincoln Elementary School stopped by our workshop on a downtown caroling adventure! The elves all took a break from their busy holiday sewing to hear the students sing several songs. Since the school is bilingual, we were thrilled to hear carols sung in both English and Spanish. Over 20...
  6. Winter at the Soft Star Shoes Workshop

    Winter at the Soft Star Shoes Workshop

    As the holidays approach, life at the Soft Star workshop adapts to the season. Winter hit us hard this year, and we're embracing all it has to offer. Our small town of Corvallis, Oregon rarely sees an inch of snow each year, but the past week brought us the biggest snowstorm we've seen in two decades. Granted, it's still less...

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