How the heck do you work in a freezer?!

Cold hands, warm heart… not! I sometimes say, “You can take the boy out of the prairie but you can’t take the prairie out of the boy.” But that’s really only trying to put a positive spin on working in the cold. The truth is, we get cold like everyone else. Our studio...

What are you thankful for?

I can’t believe it is already Thanksgiving weekend. This year has just flown by, and it feels like the first day of summer was yesterday! It’s a great time to reflect on the obvious, what we are thankful for. As a company we have so many people that bring us through...

The scariest delivery we’ve ever made!

Ever say yes to something and then wonder what you’ve gotten yourself into? That’s us pretty much for the first three years after starting Ice Decor. But we were so thrilled every time someone called us requesting an ice sculpture we would say yes before...

What do you do when it breaks?!

So what do you do when it breaks? Call it good luck or good planning, we’ve gone the better part of ten years with only one serious accident. That one was the result of poor planning. I was delivering a two piece clam shell to an up scale downtown hotel about 7...

Getting on the map…

I’m sitting here at the Lieutenant Governor General’s mansion in Victoria waiting to set up an ice sculpture. How in the world did we get here? I’m simply amazed. When we look back down memory lane to those first few sculptures when everything we did...