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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 […]
Walking Lesson We’re big fans of Michael Sandler at Soft Star. We met the barefoot guru and his wife, Jessica Lee, shortly after they released their first book, Barefoot Running, in 2011. Several members of our staff befriended the happy couple after attending one of their touring workshops, and they visited our Soft Star workshop […]
The Soft Star elves are proud to tell people we’ve been making shoes since 1984, but anyone who saw our shop back in the early days might be surprised to see how much things have changed. The biggest difference: Soft Star once operated out of a school bus! Daughter Corina in front of the old […]
Our leather-cutting elves have the privilege of working in the most colorful room in the Soft Star workshop. At present, we have over 50 different colors we use to make our shoes in smooth, suede and shiny leather (plus quite a few animal-free options). Since many of these colors need to be stocked in varying […]
Val with Wife Naomi and son Sebastian Everyone at Soft Star Shoes is sad to see Elf Val go. Val started working at Soft Star Shoes when the RunAmoc took off and jumped right in to barging the soles for us. Our founder Tim’s oldest daughter Naomi, who also used to work at Soft Star, […]
With back to school just around the corner, the elves have been busy this week fulfilling orders. This past Monday was the busiest Monday we’ve had in a year! The elves are still recovering from this hectic time. Above is a photo of all the shoes that were sent out yesterday from our workshop. Can […]
The elves in the workshop were busy last weekend with the annual maintenance of our hydraulic clicker, which we use to cut out all the materials for our shoes. We recently discovered an oil leak under the clicker and had to lift the machine (all one tons of it!!) to install a drip pan underneath. […]
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