Workshop tours are part of the daily fun at Soft Star Shoes. We try to send our guests home with mementos or (at the least) leather scraps - but now we can offer another fun option - postcards home! If a visitor would like to send a Soft Star postcard to their favorite friend or family member - they just...

One of my favorite additions to the workshop shop this year are the two gorgeous pots of honeysuckle outside our front door. The littlest elves love to pull off blossoms and suck on them, and they do smell sooooo beautiful! Tivi says they smell "like summer" - plain and simple. Soft Star Shoes is a family friendly company located in...

We have new neighbors!! Our workshop is on the upper floor of a 100 year old coffee warehouse. A fabulous music store (The Troubadour Music Center) recently moved in downstairs... so now we are treated to strains of violin, piano, flute, accordions, drums, harmonicas, guitars and even singing throughout the the day. They also have a workshop for instrument repair...

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 buckets of water came pouring...

This month the Elves have been moving, stretching and growing.... WIDER. And in this case, it is a good thing. We took down the wall that formerly framed our workshop and expanded for a little more breathing room. Here is Larkin putting the wagon to work moving sheepskin Tim and Scott built new walls, storage and work tables If only...

Today we started our trial of new LED lighting trial... and we are so far, pleasantly surprised! We swapped out the fluorescent tubes above our finishing table with 2 high power LED tubes, one "warm" and one "cool"... and the resulting work light was a bright natural color and incredibly bright work table. LED lighting uses very little power in...

Soft Star Shoes is now proudly 100% powered by solar and wind! Actually, we have been for a full 5 months now - but it has taken me a while to get around to writing this blog entry. I got a little nudge to write it this week when an EPA report was issued ranking our little town of Corvallis...