shoemaker and the elves

Happy (almost) New Years! We hope you enjoy our new video (click here) which shares our history, values and a window into our workshop. Wishing you a peaceful and joyous New Year with Family and Friends! Thank you for a wonderful 2009! Soft Star Shoes is a family friendly company located in Corvallis, Oregon. Viewpoints […]

There’s an old saying, “the children of the shoemaker go barefoot”, meaning that the shoemaker is so busy making shoes for other people that his/her kids are neglected. This being back-to-school season, we elves have indeed been busy making classroom slippers as fast as our hands can sew. Six year old elf Tivi started school […]

It was a dark and stormy… day… which is strange since we are in Western Oregon. Two weeks ago we had a couple days of dark, muggy, thundery weather. Definitely not standard fare for the Pacific North West. Then on Thursday all the built up weather came to a head, the sky opened up, and […]

Sometimes customers confuse us “shoe elves” with “Santa’s elves” from the North Pole. Actually we have never been to the North Pole… but our shoes have. Today we shipped an order to our friend Julie from Fairbanks, Alaska. Her mailing address is at the North Pole… pretty distinctive Post Office! Even more bemusing is that […]

This week our shoes were featured on a TV news segment featuring “Design Your Own” products. Click here to view (or if that doesn’t work, copy and past this URL into your browser: http://studio5.ksl.com/?nid=58&sid=4493544 ) Studio 5 is a news channel broadcasting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kiersten Blanchard did a series on design your […]

Welcome to Moccasin Musings! This new blog is per the request of our Soft Star Shoe customers. We will aim for one new article per week on topics related to all things shoes and being barefoot, whether for babies, toddlers or YOU! Feel free to send suggestions for articles to us at: [email protected]. We’d love […]