The In-Between

There are two significant markers in a bride-to-be’s life: the engagement and the wedding. The engagement is mostly characterized by simultaneous disbelief and excitement - emotions that first run right through you, out of nowhere. Suddenly, you’re riding on this wave as everything mandatory transpires. A slew of ‘Congratulations!’ come in; questions about the proposal, the wedding date, the dress, even the color scheme; ‘likes’ and messages from acquaintances you haven’t heard from in a while. You’re the center of everyone’s attention. ‘All men around the world are mourning now; all women wish to be you now,’ they say...

MarriageDeanne BanaresApril 20, 2015Marriage, Wedding, Wife, Husband Comments

The Design Process

When I committed to the idea of starting a blog, I knew that design had to come into play. The core of Classy Musings will always be the words but considering the image-driven nature of this world, every design facet (i.e. color, logo, font style, etc.) has to be cohesive with one idea.

So I started with asking myself a few questions: Who am I? What colors speak to me, embody me? If I were a city, a magazine or a fashion brand, what would I be?...

Life & StyleDeanne BanaresApril 8, 2015Design, Moodboard, Color, Font, Branding, Blog Comment

The Debut

Coming home from London hit me hard in so many ways. One of the things that suffered was my writing. I just stopped. I thought that since I was back here, with nothing grand or prosperous to write about, why even bother? But as months passed and as both nothing and everything happened to me, I noticed my realizations growing and becoming more significant...