Looking to WOW your guests with a show-stopping ice sculpture? That’s right…Who you gonna call? Clearly, there is a first choice when it comes to creating the icy cold masterpiece you might have in mind.

CLEAR MEMORIES is an innovator in the field of ice carving. In 1995, both Jeff Foley and Dave Peterson, with their extensive backgrounds in the culinary arts, found themselves living in Northern California and working tirelessly in the food and beverage industry. Then finally, as lifelong friends, they decided to follow their passion for ice sculpting and founded CLEAR MEMORIES. The venture began as a small business providing ice sculptures to local catering companies, hotels, and restaurants. Quickly and steadily, their reputation grew as sculptors who provide quality work and professionalism.

Today, CLEAR MEMORIES owns six Clinebell block-making machines that produce twenty-four, three-hundred-pound, crystal-clear blocks of ice per week. All work is done in a twenty-by-forty-foot freezer studio. Their innovative ideas have placed them head and shoulders above the competition, creating masterpieces like no other company in the world.

Jeff and Dave go “outside the box” to find the most efficient means to create their work, consistently looking for new ways to create, set-up, and utilize ice. Truly, they set the standards; everyone else follows. Below are some examples of their creativity and collaborations with Lea McIntosh Fine Events that might inspire you to be creative, too.

A custom ice sculpture featuring a custom logo was created to serve Ossetra caviar, prawn shooters, and oysters on the half shell. This display wowed the crowd, and even took best of show at a Gentry Magazine gala!

A close-up of the Prawn Shooters. Mmmm! This picture is for John Vink, an Apple iphone engineer who loves his PRAWNS. In fact, he had two ice bowls full! Check out these ice bowls, made by CLEAR MEMORIES, on The Flirty Guide. John had these made for his fill of shrimp at his own wedding last year to Stacie Tamaki, founder of The Flirty Guide. John calls them shrimp. I call them PRAWNS!

This ice bar was created for a client whose sole success (so to speak) is in shoes! I was asked to produce a New Year’s Eve party with a shoe theme throughout. I gave them SHOES!

But not only did I give them shoes, I used their own shoe design and made it into an ice luge! What is an ice luge (lo̵̅o̅z̸h)? An ice luge is a functioning ice sculpture that chills beverages by pouring the drinks down an ice slide or through an ice funnel. Back to the shoes…

Below is a picture of the shoes I gave to the talented team at CLEAR MEMORIES. As you can see, it looks like the real thing, but in ICE!

This is a sketch that CLEAR MEMORIES provided to give me an idea of what the shoe bar was going to look like. There are no ice projects too over-the-top for this talented team.

To learn more about creating an ice sculpture for your event visit their website at www.clearmemories.com