Halloween

Halloween is fast approaching and I’ve been hard a work on our Toy Story themed costumes. The Buzz space boots have been done for a while and now the Woody cowboy boots are done too. I just hope the rest of the costumes can keep up with the amazing boots! And while the Buzz boots […]

We are getting ready for Halloween and 4 yr old Kahlil has been wanting to be Buzz Lightyear since March! Lucky for him, Mom can whip up a pair of Space Ranger Boots to complete his costume. The Elves LOVE EM!! He recruited all of the family into being his entourage at Halloween – stay […]

At Soft Star we are lucky in many ways… one of which is that we live in a great community. For Halloween most of the businesses in downtown Corvallis open their doors for trick-or-treating. It’s a great, safe way for the kids of the community to enjoy Halloween. And the businesses love seeing the kids […]

Halloween is fun at the workshop as our downtown area is a popular trick-or-treating destination. This year we handed out over 100 bags of leather scraps to trick-or-treaters for craft projects – ornaments, cards, jewlery, bookmarks… How fitting that elf DeAnn (left) also decided to dress up as a “Scrap Pile”. Bandmaster Tim was on […]

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 […]