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With Christmas coming up, Sand In Your Eye headed down to the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk for their Christmas Craft, Food & Gift Fair to get started on their Christmas shopping. 

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Ice spray
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Adding detail with the ice tools
Spectator sport

Living Heritage Events had seen our ice sculptures and ice trails and asked Jamie, Mark and Rodrigo to come along and do some live ice carving in one of the tents at the Christmas fair at the Queen’s country residence. Each day of the family event, they created a different ice sculpture that would all fit together at the end. On day one they carved a reindeer, next came Santa’s sleigh for the deer to pull and on the final day they made a postbox. Visitors to the fair could pose with Santa in the sleigh and post letters to him into the postbox.

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Family day out
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Posting their letters
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    What will this turn into?
  • ice sleigh
    Nearly Christmas!
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    Santa
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    The reindeer emerges from the ice block
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    Mark warms up Santa’s seat
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    Cuddling up on the sleigh
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  • Jingle Bells
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    Reindeer
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    The post box
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    Frosty tries out the ice sleigh
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    Beautiful
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    Day Two
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    Ready for the letters
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    Santa on his day off brought his dog to see the ice carving
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    In the tent
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    Kids of all ages love Santa
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    Working on the reindeer

The chilly weather meant that the large ice sculptures lasted the whole weekend and really added to the festive atmosphere. As well as visiting the live ice carve, people attending the Christmas fair could watch glassblowing, wood carving, see how artists and craftmakers make the gifts and handmade items on sale. There was also plenty of hot chocolate, mulled wine and lovely food to warm people up.

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"We were delighted with the outcome of our climate-themed Coal and Ice event at Woodhorn Museum. The Ice Trail looked stunning, with visitors really connecting with the poignancy of seeing beautifully carved endangered animals slowly begin to melt away. Throughout the project, the Sand in Your Eye team were enthusiastic, professional, collaborative and full of brilliant creative ideas. I wouldn't hesitate to work with Sand in Your Eye again and would highly recommend them to others."

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"We were really excited to work with Sand In Your Eye on this important project. The attention to detail and the tutorial videos we received to help our children put together the paper bees were just fabulous. The engagement in the project from all year groups was lovely to see. The team at Sand In Your Eye are creative, innovative and have a can-do attitude; no project is too big!"

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