My Story

  Hi, I'm Natalia - the maker behind DaLi Bags backpacks.

It all started when I was five years old - hand stitching pieces of scrap fabric together to make clothes for my dolls.

My mom taught me how to create with my hands. By the age of six, I could already knit and embroider. Every evening, my whole family - my father, my sisters, my grandmother - would sit together creating.

Creating wasn’t just a hobby in our home.It was part of who we were. 

At six years old, I started my very first business. After my mom finished knitting orders for her customers, I used leftover yarn to make baby booties. She asked her friend to sell them in a hair salon - and they sold.

That was the moment I realized something important:
I could create something with love, and people would value it.

Years later, life took me from Ukraine to Poland. I decided to become a seamstress - even though I had no formal training. In fact, at the beginning, I didn’t even know how to turn on a sewing machine. But I was determined to learn. I worked in a furniture factory sewing leather covers. There were always scraps of beautiful material. One day, I needed a  backpack for work - so I made one for myself.

The girls at work loved it.

So I made another one. And another. Soon, I was creating bags for friends and family - and I fell in love with transforming leftover materials into something beautiful and useful.

Then life changed again. I moved to Canada and started over. New country. New language. New beginning.

In 2024, I began working in a company that also had a sewing department - and once again, I saw high-quality materials being left behind.

Materials that deserved a second life. That’s when everything came together. I started  creating bags and backpacks and selling them at local markets. The response was incredible - and it gave me the confidence to keep going.

That’s how this store was born.

The name DaLi comes from my children - Daniel and Liza - and also from my favorite artist, Salvador Dalí. It represents both my family and my creativity.

Today, every bag I make carries a piece of my journey - from childhood evenings spent crafting, to starting over in new countries, to building something meaningful with my own hands.

This is more than just bags.

It’s about resilience.
It’s about creativity.
It’s about giving materials - and dreams - a second life.

Thank you for being here and supporting handmade work.

When you carry one of my bags, you carry a piece of my story with you.

-Nataliia Losevycheva