A special occasion needs a special ice bucket just for the bubbly. Here is how to make a nice Icy Ice Bucket. 
- Fill a clean bucket with water.
- Sit the bucket outside overnight so that the water in the bucket freezes.
- The next day, upturn the bucket and bash it until the ice slides out.
- Gently knock a hole into the top and pour out the little bit of unfrozen icy water in the middle. Pour some of the water onto the table.
- Set your ice bucket into the puddle on the table , where it will quickly freeze TO the table. And there you have it – a very stable Icy Ice bucket!
Lower your chilled champagne into it’s bucket. Then take the champagne out of it’s bucket. Pop the cork softly, into the palm of your hand. Gently, don’t bruise the bubbles. 
Pour. Let the champagne slide down the side of the glass. Don’t pop those bubbles. The bubbles are Good. Return your bottle to the ice bucket.
Clink. Cheers. Drink. Happy Birthday To Me!
love celi
PS Be careful eating the berries – they are frozen solid by now!! (bubbly laughter). And don’t stay out too long or you and your champagne will be frozen solid too. However if the weather stays nice and cold, ( I know this is a contradiction in terms but bear with me) your frozen ice bucket will wait on its frozen table to chill the Christmas champagne as well. Maybe even New Years. You never know.
c
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115 responses to “How to Make an Ice Bucket for Chilled Champagne”
That’s the most beautiful Birthday post ever!! Happy Birthday to you and to your creative mind!
Ah Mimo, thank you so much, your daily pages are my treasures! c
Happy birthday! It doesn’t get cold enough here on a regular basis to make one of them, but I might could have last night!
Ah well, there has to be some advantage to living on the frozen prairies!
Happy Birthday to you! Martha Stewart has nothing on you, I’ll bet she never made her own champagne ice bucket! 😉
Too cold for Martha, out there grappling with the icy water! c
That is brilliant…and now I’m curious- just how cold is it??
A big Happy Birthday to you dear lady!
Still up and down, just below and above freezing, but in a few weeks we will drop below freezing, go even further and stay there for a while. I will keep you posted. Just to shock you all! c
That is so cool, reminds me of iced over puddles in the UK with that lovely frosty film on top and you put your foot through it and then wet feet :o) Happy Birthday and cheers my dear!
And the crunch, allison, that wonderful satisfying crunch of the puddles breaking.! great! c
Many happy returns of the day, cecilia!
Thank you Sweetie. hope you had a great weekend too! c
Happy birthday, Cecilia xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
kisses straight back to you Cinful Cindy. I love to think of you having your afternoon glass out in the rose filled garden! c
We still have our unopened bottle of champagne from last New Years…and we’ll be out of town this year…but someday (Vanentine’s?!) I must try this!
The bucket is great for all kind of drinks. When we have gatherings I line the verandah table with them and they hold the coke, the beer, the wine, the water!! anything that likes to stay very cold and will be drunk before it freezes! c
Good thought. Oh, and happy birthday to you!! Mine is coming up as well…kinda a stressful time of year to be born for our poor mamas. I hope you have/had a wonderful day!
did you used to get your birthday and christmas presents together!? i did! c
Yes, I did, and it’s simply not fair! Not by my parents, but by others. I think they justified it by saying that they spent more on the gift…but I wasn’t buying that when I was a kid!!! Mine’s January 3rd, so it’s after, and I always (rudely) imagined that they waited for the after-Christmas sales to get me something then! Greedy thing.
exactly! My gran was the worst for it!.. c
Great photos… I’m now craving a wee sip!! Happy Birthday.. I hope it isn’t over where you are and I’ve missed it! I hope everything was just as you’d like it:)
It is over now (monday morning) but thank you all the same.. everything was very restful and sleepy. And I did not cook or clean all day so that was a bonus. c
Perfect!
Awww Happy Birthday Ms. Cecilia :). I LOVE this Birthday treat you had.. I think I would love this for myself. But I better let me stepfather read this post so my mom can get this for her birthday :). I hope you enjoyed your day
What a great idea, tell your StepDad to rest the water for a few hours so there are not bubbles in it when it freezes, I keep forgetting to do that step. c
birthday blessings dear Celi! May your year ahead be more amazing than the year just past 🙂
Well Tandy it is going to be an amazing year if your wishes come true! thank you.. c
Way to go girl! Inspired and something I might try here usually we are lazy and just stick the bottle in the snow 🙂 Many happy returns!
I would love you to try it honey, it is so simple it is silly! Though the snow trick is just as good and quite romantic too!! c
What a wonderful idea, simple and creative! Beautiful photos!
We do like Simple, SimpleP. And your mulled beer looks simple too. I am making that soon! c
Belated Birthday wishes, Dear Lady!
Now, go put a fat, white birthday candle (only one, no need for age revealing mulitples!) in that now-empty ice bucket, and make a lantern to light the way to the party!
What a stunning idea, and as it melts the light will catch all the drips! I shall do that, you are a clever wee thing! c
What a fun and great idea!
Thank you Yummy, have a great day! c