In this post we’ll demonstrate how your children can make a Christmas ornament out of our BThoughtful10 gift box. To create your own personalized holiday gift box and message, visit BThoughtful10.com.

“What’s a BThoughtful Gift Box?”

For the holidays, Brainstorm designed a little do-it-yourself custom gift box with personalized messages printed inside to give to friends and family. Go to BThoughtful10.com and make as many you like! Think of them as your own personal fortune cookie – without the cookie.

“But I’m craft-less”

The boxes are easy to make, all you need is a printer, a pair of scissors, and something you’d like to say to someone else.

We’ll be posting different decorating ideas and ways to use the box throughout the holiday season. Just visit BThoughtful10.com, or watch for How-To’s here at .think (our .think RSS feed), tagged as BThoughtful10 inside “Topics�? in the upper right-hand corner of this page.

“I’ve got a thought”

You can join in the fun by adding your own thoughts. Just visit BThoughtful10.com and add a message in Your Thoughts, or upload pictures or short videos to the BThoughtful10 Flickr group.

Have fun, and make it a thoughtful holiday.

Want to see some of Brainstorm’s past Holiday projects?:
Brainstorm Wonderland | NorthPoleInc.us | BCause08 | BCause09

In this post we’ll demonstrate how to make a party favor out of your BThoughtful10 gift box – replete with sweets. To create your own personalized holiday gift box and message, visit BThoughtful10.com.

“What’s a BThoughtful Gift Box?”

For the holidays, Brainstorm designed a little do-it-yourself custom gift box with personalized messages printed inside to give to friends and family. Go to BThoughtful10.com and make as many you like! Think of them as your own personal fortune cookie – without the cookie.

“But I’m craft-less”

The boxes are easy to make, all you need is a printer, a pair of scissors, and something you’d like to say to someone else.

We’ll be posting different decorating ideas and ways to use the box throughout the holiday season. Just visit BThoughtful10.com, or watch for How-To’s here at .think (our .think RSS feed), tagged as BThoughtful10 inside “Topics�? in the upper right-hand corner of this page.

“I’ve got a thought”

You can join in the fun by adding your own thoughts. Just visit BThoughtful10.com and add a message in Your Thoughts, or upload pictures or short videos to the BThoughtful10 Flickr group.

Have fun, and make it a thoughtful holiday.

Want to see some of Brainstorm’s past Holiday projects?:
Brainstorm Wonderland | NorthPoleInc.us | BCause08 | BCause09

In this post we’ll demonstrate how to make a glowing BThoughtful10 gift box. To create your own personalized holiday gift box and message, visit BThoughtful10.com.

“What’s a BThoughtful Gift Box?”

For the holidays, Brainstorm designed a little do-it-yourself custom gift box with personalized messages printed inside to give to friends and family. Go to BThoughtful10.com and make as many you like! Think of them as your own personal fortune cookie – without the cookie.

“But I’m craft-less”

The boxes are easy to make, all you need is a printer, a pair of scissors, and something you’d like to say to someone else.

We’ll be posting different decorating ideas and ways to use the box throughout the holiday season. Just visit BThoughtful10.com, or watch for How-To’s here at .think (our .think RSS feed), tagged as BThoughtful10 inside “Topics�? in the upper right-hand corner of this page.

“I’ve got a thought”

You can join in the fun by adding your own thoughts. Just visit BThoughtful10.com and add a message in Your Thoughts, or upload pictures or short videos to the BThoughtful10 Flickr group.

Have fun, and make it a thoughtful holiday.

Want to see some of Brainstorm’s past Holiday projects?:
Brainstorm Wonderland | NorthPoleInc.us | BCause08 | BCause09

BThoughtful

For the holidays, Brainstorm designed a do-it-yourself gift box that you can create with your own custom message inside. To make one for friends and family go to BThoughtful10.com.

Make Thoughts

Making the box is a cinch, just add a message, print, cut, and fold. But if you’re the type that likes specific directions, we’ve created the How-To slideshow below that shows you how to make the box step-by-step.

We’ll be posting different decorating ideas and ways to use the box throughout the holiday season. Just visit BThoughtful.com, or watch for How-To’s here at .think (our .think RSS feed), tagged as BThoughtful10 inside “Topics�? in the upper right-hand corner of this page.

Share Thoughts

You can join in the fun by adding your own thoughts—serious or sentimental, funny or frivolous. Just visit BThoughtful10.com and add a message in Your Thoughts, or upload pictures or short videos to the BThoughtful10 Flickr group.

BThoughtful and enjoy the holidays!

Want to see some of Brainstorm’s past Holiday projects?:
Brainstorm Wonderland | NorthPoleInc.us | BCause08 | BCause09

“Can clap with one hand, either hand.”

I asked a programmer/developer friend for feedback on recent .think posts. He suggested that readers who don’t know us quite as well might benefit from a peek into our culture, personality and processes here at Brainstorm.

An email exchange I had with a copywriter promptly leapt to mind. During an interview she singled out a bio item I’d submitted.

Copywriter

Please explain:
“Can clap with one hand, either hand.”

Me

H’m, explaining it is infinitely more difficult than doing it, but here goes:

First I align and abut all my fingers (index, middle, ring and pinky), creating a rigid grouping. My thumb is curled away from—with its base pressed deeply into and at a parallel angle to—the body of my hand.

Next, I slightly cock the grouping, not unlike an asp ready to strike.

Then at once, in one fluid yet rapid stroke, I drive the middle and distal phalanges downward into the meaty base of my palm.

In so doing, my fingers break in unison across the intersection of the proximal and middle phalanges. As the stroke continues downward, unimpeded by the out-swung thumb, my fingers articulate into a small inverted hyper extension of the distal and middle phalanges as the tips of the distal phalanges strike the base of my hand. The resulting tone is that of a typical, single, “clap.”

I am capable of clapping at nearly the same pace as anyone with two hands and I can perform this feat with either hand, independently or in unison.