little bitty girl

Stefan is an onion, or so he likes to tell me. He has many layers. I often tell him that likening himself to an onion is a terrible analogy because after you peel the layers, you simply get more onion.

Anyway, it's true that Stefan has many layers. One of his "layers" that everyone finds so surprising is that he's very design oriented. They just think, because of what he does, that he's just this computer geek. Little do they know that he actually had plans to be an architect with his best friends but numbers and solving theoretical problems won that debate.

Almost everything that he ever picks, whether it be clothing or furniture has to have an element of interesting design. I tend to lean towards whimsical and vintage. Often, when you see his choices, you'll think, "God, how simple. Such clean lines and so boring." and then at a closer look, you'll notice some cool detail, ever so slight.

Anyway, living in a loft forces you to be really creative with storage. We've learnt that the hard way throughout the years but have slowly worked around it. One of Stefan's most favourite purchases was a bunch of MeBoxes from Caban. No ordinary storage box would do. I didn't care, I just wanted somewhere to put our miscellaneous junk away.

One day when he had pulled out one of the boxes and I noticed that it had his initials on it. I was offended. Where was MY box with my initials? He answered exasperatedly that obviously he had put the boxes too high as I never notice anything above my eye level. He put the box back and told me to look up on the shelves.

The multi-layered onion had spelled out "SL heart KTK."

Now, whenever I have to put junk away in our storage area, I always look up so I can see his tribute to me. It's very sweet. Maybe after you peel all the layers, the onion becomes sweeter.