Our Story French Canadian Cathy Dutrieux, 30, her French husband Alexis, 32 and their 2 little ones, ClĂŠmentine, 3 and cheeky monkey Zachariah, 10 months, live in Greenock, Center Scotland. Cathy runs her crochet business, Tetachapo, from home around her family life.
Lifestyle and philosophy
making it work around family
We love spending time all 4 together, not
Zach is a very demanding little boy so most
going out much, just enjoying the time of the work is done during the evenings or we have. We have no or very little family
week-ends when daddy is there to look
in Scotland but the kids enjoy talking with after the kiddies. We are very lucky because grannies and grandpas on Skype, either in
Alexis is able to work 10 hours a day for 4
Canada or in France.
days since ClĂŠmentine was born, so we can
home business
enjoy 3 day week-ends.
I am a working at home mummy, I do custom crochet hats, mostly, I sometimes do bigger
Our inspiration I started crochet 4 years ago, a colleague
pieces when the times are quieter. I run the taught me the base between 2 calls in a call Facebook page Tetachapo (which in French
center! Then I looked into Youtube tutorials
would mean someone that wears hats and started making baby clothes when beautifully, that has a head for hats!).
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I learned we were having a baby ;) Then