Please Visit My Favorite Sites
The Ranney-Crawford House B&B
My family owns and runs the Ranney-Crawford House B&B in Putney, VT. It’s a wonderful 1810 brick Federal with luxurious rooms, delicious breakfasts, and beautiful grounds.
Jewelry artist, lapidarist and fellow classmate David Posnett uses quartz and other stones from Maidstone beach in the Hamptons to create beautiful, organically shaped silver jewelry. Visit his site for necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, and bolo ties.
Another jewelry collague, Sandy Leong, is a lifelong artist, has worked in variety of mediums. She makes exquisite hand crafted jewelry using only the finest materials. Sandy's 18k and 22k gold, and sterling silver jewelry also features diamonds and semi precious stones. The inspiration for her modern and feminine designs derives from her worldwide travels and the urban environment.
My dearest friend from college, Betsy Alley has combined her training as an archeologist, her love of ancient design, and her eye for style to create a line of beautiful scarves, ties, and t-shirts. Wear your love of ancient Egypt, Greece – and many other ancient cultures – on your sleeve (or chest or neck) and let everyone know you appreciate the classics.
Visit this site for tasty treats baked specially for you by my good friend Davide Dickson. A graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education (formerly Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School) in New York City for pastry training and she’s amazingly talented. Wow your guests with personalized, iced cookies or her famous chocolate logjam cake. They’ll be talking about it for months!
Matteo has photographed such known faces as actress Tia Texada (Third Watch), singer Joan Osborne, comedian Margaret Cho, Shayna Steele (Hairspray), Chester Gregory (Hairspray), Justin Johnston (Rent) and Michael Seelbach (Wicked). Matteo has also shot the ad campaigns for Therapy, Gym and Minoritees. His photograhs of my jewelry appear on this web page.
My friend Deborah Gregory, famed author of The Cheetah Girls, makes beautiful, funky metal cases with decoupage images and sparkles on them. You can get ID cases, sewing kits, business card cases, and tissue cases. Images include famous people like Josephine Baker and Billie Holiday, glam icons like pocketbooks and shoes, and of course, animals. Get information here about her books and the hit Disney TV movies here, too!
My friend Nigel Teare is a London fashion photographer who recently relocated from New York City. His London fashion photographer’s business offers his clients the finest in professional expertise available. He specializes in people photography; portrait work, commercial advertising and print work, corporate portraits, headshots, theatre production and PR photography.
My friend Joel Bukiewicz is a self-taught metal artist who specializes in making knives. He makes each knife one at a time in his workshop, focusing on durability, function and beauty.
Acclaimed artist, teacher, and friend Joanna Astor showcases her fine art, including collage, watercolor, prints and sculpture.