I would like to proudly announce our first fundraiser!  Er...well...its more of a "Get a cookie for a donation" event, but fundraiser just sounds better.

My lovely wife, Kiniska Vanck, will be attending the Steampunk Symposium in Cincinnati, OH April 26th through the 28th.  There she will be displaying her portfolio of fantasy and steampunk artwork.  She will also have a donation jar there describing our plans for Building Vanck Castle.  If you leave a donation, then you get a cookie and help build a castle!  Sounds like a good deal doesn't it?

The weather has been playing havoc with our plans for building Vanck Castle.  First, it seemed that winter would never end and now spring wants to drown us out.  Our contact who handles excavations and such has been so busy he hasn’t been able to stop by to deliver the rock we ordered or look at our potential building site to work up an estimate.  However, we have some movement on the funding front.  I will post more on that tomorrow.