Sandstormers in their festive holiday sweaters smile at the camera

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re incredibly thankful for our awesome clients who trust us to help bring their ideas to life. The work we do is better because of your collaboration, partnership, and shared commitment to doing meaningful work.

Spirit Week

Spirit week 2025

Now a custom at Sandstorm, our team got into the spirit of the season with our annual Holiday Spirit Week. This year’s festivities were filled with holiday themes that were festive (holiday cheer), fun (dress like a present), silly (pajama day), and cozy (flannel day). We were especially excited to see some of our clients joining in on the fun! Visit our LinkedIn or Instagram pages to see Sandstormers showing off their holiday best.

Bingo

Customized bingo boards with festive colors

To wrap up the week, we hosted our annual holiday party. And this year, bingo was the name of the game-o. Over the past month, we collected favorite phrases and sayings from Sandstormers to randomly populate our bingo cards. Each person received a virtual card, customized it with their own decorations and dobber, and marked squares as different sayings or activities popped up during the party.

The competition was tough, but here are our top four bingo winners, each of whom received a $25 gift card:

  • Josh
  • Nathan
  • John
  • Emily

White Elephant Gift Exchange

White elephant stats for 2025

As always, our virtual White Elephant gift exchange was a hit. To mix things up this year, each participant was asked to “sell” their White Elephant gift. The pitches were creative and convincing, and everyone agreed, when you have to sell your gift, the quality goes up!

White Elephant highlights

  • Most Stolen Gift: Backpack Cooler
  • Most Popular Gift Type: Anything warm, including heated mittens, a mug warmer, pajamas, a wearable heat pad, and a kitchen thermometer.
  • Most Active AND Unlucky Player: Emily
Sandstormers waving in a silly animation

A big thank you for being such an important part of Sandstorm! We’re excited to see what 2026 brings and look forward to innovating together in the year ahead.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

The name Sandy written in cursive.

Sandy Marsico

Sandy Marsico a light skinned female with blonde shoulder length hair wearing a teal top smiling at the camera
Sandy Marsico
Founder & CEO

Let’s build meaningful experiences together

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