1. Winter Playday at the Soft Star Workshop

    Winter Playday at the Soft Star Workshop

    It's play time again! Twice a year, the Soft Star elves set aside an afternoon for a playday. This is an day in which we stop working and are encouraged to engage in a creative project of our choice. We're allowed to use the equipment and materials at Soft Star and our activities don't need to have anything to do...
  2. "I'm Glad I Stepped in Dog Poo"

    "I'm Glad I Stepped in Dog Poo"

    At Soft Star Shoes, we are constantly testing our shoes to give our customers the best product that we can. We use and test our products and strive for authenticity. Several of our elves have been wearing prototypes of our adult Mary Jane throughout the summer in preparation for the December release. One of them, Elf Hava, has been testing a...
  3. Color Your Own Shoes - an Experiment...

    Inspired by an idea we came across in a book, my 5yr old daughter Tivi and I decided to try our hand at creating shoes with our own personalized drawings. Armed with 18 different colored Sharpie markers, we each designed a pair. Tivi initially started thinking she would do a full color fill.... but after one back on one shoe...
  4. Product Testing in the REAL World

    As a former high-tech engineer, this shoe elf sometimes longingly remembers the days of fancy testing equipment. First on my wish list would be a heavy duty shoe "walker" that could put 100,000,000 steps on our new models overnight to give us quick feedback on durability of materials (kind oflike the bionic kid). Of course, then I wouldn't get the...
  5. Saddle Shoes at Soft Star

    Back in June we asked for your thoughts on Soft Star making a saddle shoe. The response was fantastic. THANK YOU for taking the time to tell us what you want from Soft Star. Based on your feedback, Soft Star is planning to introduce the saddle shoe this fall. A few items that came up in your comments.... Fringe is...
  6. 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...
  7. 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...

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