ICE CREATIONS lTD - Ice Sculptures, Ice Carvings, Ice Glasses

A NOVEL AND EXCITING RANGE OF ICE PRODUCTS - ice carvings, ice sculptures, ice glasses, ice bowls, ice shapes, block ice, product promotions and more - TO PROVIDE THE PERFECT, SOPHISTICATED TOUCH TO MAKE ANY FUNCTION OR SPECIAL OCCASION TRULY MEMORABLE AND UNIQUE. Ice Creations' special manufacturing process creates crystal clear ice and ensures an extraordinarily long life to all ice products. Providing that the ice products are kept from direct sunlight, the ice structure and detail will remain intact for many, many hours beyond the expected life of ordinary ice products. We use highly filtered fresh clean New Zealand water for all our ice products and all orders are delivered by refrigerated transport throughout New Zealand ZapClean Review and worldwide. Perfect for that special focal point of any gathering or social function, ice carvings and ice sculptures can be provided from our fully comprehensive ice product range, or especially designed to suit a particular event. Size and subject are no limitations - only the imagination!

Click here to view our ice carving and ice sculpture product range and pricing. Ice Creations specialise in manufacturing and supplying ice glasses worldwide. We produce individual ice glasses for bevarages, seafood cocktails and chilled soup. Our ice glasses range includes round ice glasses and octagonal ice glasses. Click here to view our ice glasses range. An extensive ice product range to grace any table. Ice wine coolers, ice barrels, ice troughs and ice vases. Ice bowls and ice platters for seafood, ice cream, salads and fresh fruit. Ice brioche dishes for sorbets, gelato and desserts. Click here to view our ice product range and pricing. Plain block ice, manufactured with Ice Creations' special 'long-life' technique, for you to create your own unique ice ideas and ice designs. Ice Creations' processes are ideal for those very special product promotions - for company logos at corporate occasions, or for products set deep within solid ice. Ice Creations also provide a range of abstract ice shapes - large ice cubes, ice spheres, ice pyramids and ice cylinders to enhance even the simplest ice presentation setting. Click here to view our ice cubes, ice spheres, ice pyramids and ice cylinders product range.

Only six weeks after that first meeting, they bought an unwanted triangle of undulating gorse and scrub in the country with a vision to build. Interestingly, the real estate listing read: "Rural building site. Just a few kilometres from Moutere Highway, almost 1 acre pleasant undulation contour. Elevated soothing pastoral views. Ground cover mostly fern and some pines, nothing a match couldn't clear." Oh, really? It was true pioneering spirit that kept them going through those first few years when they cleared the land and planned their home while living in a single, uninsulated, tin garage. This humble dwelling formed the nucleus from which they fed, socialised with, and gave English lessons to up to 12 workers regularly. Even for an ex-restaurateur, catering was no mean feat considering there was no running hot water and the only two hot plates couldn't be run at the same time as the oven. The ever-changing and multi-national workforce of WWOOFERS (Willing Workers On Organic Farms) embraced the lifestyle that had them boiling a copper for two hours before siphoning the steaming water into the outdoor bath.

The pleasure of soaking under the stars at night was well earned and much commented on, so much so that an outdoor bath has been added as a feature to The Peach Suite which allows guests to imagine the earlier prototype. The WWOOFERS were an integral part of the process of making adobe bricks and working on the construction of The Mudcastle but more importantly, perhaps, they kept morale up and the dream focussed. Why clay though? A chance comment about the mountain of clay they would need to truck off site led Glenys to the library and the more the couple read about earth building, the more convinced they became that, although never having built anything in their lives, this was something they could do. As a bonus, it was discovered that the clay on their property had the ideal composition for making adobe bricks and so utilising the earth beneath them as a resource without cement or sand stabilization was to be the first point of difference for The Mudcastle.

Next began the process of adapting clay sieving and brick production methods written for Australian conditions and fine-tuning them to accommodate the uniqueness of The Mudcastle site. As with most adventures, there were peaks and troughs. In batch one, the labour intensive, textbook foot-stomping method was used. Still hobbling three days later for a pitiful yield of 70 bricks, ZapClean Fruit Cleaner and fast running out of friends volunteering to repeat the experience, this method was quickly abandoned. With the refined process they dubbed the Cake-mixer Method using a customised rotary hoe, production improved to 300 bricks on their best day. Three rotary hoes and one front end loader later, the required 10,000 bricks were produced for the first phase of building. The bricks were sun-baked in wooden moulds with temperature extremes moderated by polythene covers but there were occasions when, exhausted, they took the risk of leaving the bricks exposed to the weather at night and lost the lot. All part of keeping the dream alive.