O’ hooray, hooray! We are over 7,000.00 dollars, 43 % of our goal is achieved with 104 fantastically fabulous funders, however, there is still a long swim ahead of us… Won’t you please consider helping our butterfly strokes by donating…

Another piece of the puzzle for Bitsy and Raff! Animation by Anastasia Traina ~ 2013 ~

MANY MANY THANKS and BUTTERY BUTTERFLY KISSES TO: KATHLEEN O’ GORMAN, MAURY GINSBERG, KERRI Mc CALLA, CARL CAPOTORTO!! ♥ A Ladybug’s Sneeze!

Part of the Bitsy and Raff Puzzle! Watercolor with graphite by Anastasia Traina ~ 2013~ The Lepidoptera I just finished this Lepidoptera watercolor… now all I need to do is animate it for Bitsy and Raff’s Indiegogo campaign film. Wish…

THE POND IS ALL A-RIPPLE TONIGHT!! Thank you thank you thank you to JESSICA FELDHEIM!!! LEA MOLLER SORENSON!!!! JIYOUNG LEE!!! ELLEN NOVACK!!! ALYSA SULLIVAN!!! SHEREZADA ACOSTA!!! Thank you for helping us bring the beautiful world of Bitsy and Raff to…

A SNEAK PEAKING ~ A BIT OF BITSY’S FLIGHT with flower, Only drafted in COLOR PENCIL for the moment by Anastasia Traina She rose in the air, past the flowers and things. She no longer felt like she weighed half…

A Cricket’s Chorus of THANKS to LISA CORN for her contribution this morning! Your generosity warms the breeze over our pond!!!

A DOUBLE THANK YOU to MARTINE BYER for her GENEROSITY TIMES TWO!!! MARTINE, you can double dip in our pond any time!

THE FROGS ARE HOPPING WITH JOY FROM LILY PAD TO LILY PAD, thanks to the AMAZING GENEROSITY and SUPPORT of MICHELLE LERNER, LISA COLON-ZAYAS, KRASSIMIR (KRASSO) MIHAYLOV, and TINA SCHENK!!! Thank you!!!

RAFF THE REED is BLOWN OVER by the generosity today of STEFANIE SILVERMAN! JACE ALEXANDER! CATHERINE CORPENY! Thank you for helping us bring the beautifully illustrated tale of Bitsy and Raff to children everywhere!!