Marika Lai

hello! My name is Marika and I am a 29 -year -old Sardinian girl with a dream in the drawer. I started my journey at 15, working a fabric called pannolenci and creating graceful hand -sewn keychain! While I was looking for my space in the world, working as a sales employee, investment to cultivate my passion for sewing, attending several tailoring courses and modeling, until one day, my ""stable"" work ended, and this He gave me the push to try to understand what I really wanted to make in my life. I observed a leather bag bought with the first salary, (do you know no?! One of those that cost you, who dream of for months, as long as you can keep the money to buy it!) I tried to create the pattern, then I bought the like Easy to sew the skin), I looked for some tips on the internet, and produced my first bag! It was September 2019, and I was super fair! I opened my ""Marikalaiboutique"" Instagram page, needless to tell you that it was all randomly, a lot of improvisation, starting from the name! I had just concluded a course with Salvatore Nicosia, a basic course of leather bags, I was strapelice, I had just made my first shoulder strap in real leather, and they all closed in the house! During the Lockdown, I produced a quantity of immense masks, with obviously the combined elastics! But above all I continued the search for new courses, I found one in Tuscany, for ""technician of the artisanal creation of Made in Italy products in the leather goods sector"". In July 2020, between indecisions and anxieties, I left for this adventure, obviously with chances and various difficulties, but in September 2021 it ended, and it was an experience that gave me a lot. In the meantime, I created more and more products, the sewing machines have always been part of my suitcase, the Instagram page grew and things continued to go on, thanks you, and to special people, like my friends and parents, who constantly support me , this is a fortune not to be underestimated. So today I find myself continuing to believe it: looking for my place in the world, with so much will. My purpose is to create a mini brand, because © I want to make you understand how much passion, work and dedication are hiding behind an artisan product! Transmit my feeling of being exhausted, but happy to have created something unique and precious!