A NEW PERKS ALERT!

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!! Before NOON today we have raised $11, 621.00 toward bringing Bitsy and Raff to vivid colorful life! Your generosity has overwhelmed us and we are so very grateful for all your love and support! Yet, we still have a ways to go to reach our goal, so please consider our NEWEST PERKS… for 150.00, the Star-nosed Mole Level ~You will receive everything from the Mallard Level, and a video of the hilarious, never-before-seen Bitsy Bloopers!! A must have!!! And for 350.00, the Sleepy Skimmer Level ~ You will receive everything from the Speckled Koi Level, both the poster and the t-shirt, plus a hand-crafted Bitsy doll and the never before seen Bitsy Blooper video…Plus your very own video of Bitsy and Raff read to you as a bedtime story by Scott Cohen!

PLEASE feel free to pass along the good cheer if you haven’t already! Wishing you a FLUTTERING BITSY BUTTERFLY THANK YOU and a RIPPLING POND RAFF THE REED NOD OF DEEP GRATITUDE for your wonderful GENEROSITY!!

SPLASHES OF THANKS to ROB MORROW!!! NICHOLE THOMPSON!!! DEBORAH MCCONNELL!!! PATRICIA KASPER!!! MAREE SYTSMA!!! LAUREN BURDEY!!! MICHAEL GOLDSTROM!!! ANONYMOUS!!! ADOLFO DORING!!! You all have brought us well beyond the $11,000 milestone on this lovely chilly Friday!!! Bitsy and Raff THANK YOU!!!

Thank you, thank you, LISA DESILVA for your beautiful card filled with such loving and encouraging words for Bitsy & Raff, and for your most generous gift via snailmail!! WE loved it and You ROCK!!!

On this gentle Friday morn the first snow of the season softly falls onto the bare branch of the ink berry tree which sits just outside my window… and as the breezy blue jays fight over a broken branch, I would like to extend our deepest gratitude to NICHOLE THOMPSON-ADAMS, a most GENEROUS SOUL who have brought us ohsoclose to the $11,000 mark! Thank you, Thank you!!

LET’S SNEAK A PEEK ~ Watercolor in progress by Anastasia Traina ~ 2013

Raff watched her all day, and continued to peep Until the butterflies left, and the reeds were asleep. Bitsy still sat, on that unfortunate stone, Tired and sad, and so very alone. Written by David Caudle

HUGE THANKS FROM THE POND to TODAY’S GENEROUS SOULS who have brought us ohsoclose to the $11,000 mark! THANK YOU BARBARA KAIGHIN!!! JENNIFER LOCKE!!! ALICIA CHIN!!! LINDA SPILMON!!! SIMON MOORE!!! ELIZABETH KRUGER!!! GIGANTESONGS!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Rainy but ever so Cheery Morning Greetings to All!

First, I would like to say a very important thing… I have so loved David Caudle’s moving and poetic story of what the power of friendship can do for another from my very first read… and now, I see you do too! The proof, in just sixteen days we are 3/4 of the way closer to reaching our goal.! O’ hooray!! So again, THANK YOU ALL for your wonderful generosity and belief in our project. We are ever so grateful.

Now, secondly, we would like to say all the perks that include a luncheon with Scott Cohen have been taken…however, he has so very generously given us one more!! Wow, WE LOVE HIM!!!

So for donating at the MAJESTIC EGRET LEVEL you can receive everything from the SPECKLED KOI LEVEL and have a lunch with one of the creators of BITSY AND RAFF and SCOTT COHEN!

Wishing you all a FLUTTERING BITSY BUTTERFLY THANK YOU and a RIPPLING POND RAFF THE REED NOD OF DEEP GRATITUDE for your wonderful GENEROSITY!!

Also, please consider spreading the good cheer to your friends and family so that Bitsy and Raff’s story can live for more than just one day!!

With much love and muchiness,

Anastasia Traina

THANK YOUS ALL AROUND!!! GENEROSITY ABOUNDS!!! Thank you for your support of Bitsy and Raff!! KAREN GISONNY!!!

A DOUBLE THANK YOU to VICKIE SINNETT for her SUPER GENEROSITY TIMES TWO!!! VICKIE you take my breath away!!
OXOXOX &

The POND is ABUZZ with all the Birthday LOVE for our LOVELY ILLUSTRATOR @Anastasia Traina!! We have surpassed the $10,000 Milestone!! THANKS to the AMAZING GENEROSITY of VICKIE SINNETT!!! RICHARD COURTNEY!!! JOHN LEHR!!! STEPHEN HIRSH!!!! And PAUL KNOX!!!! Thankyou!!! Thankyou!! Thankyou!!!