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Welcome to The Small Collective Small Collective, our magazine or collective hub is a place where we want to share and educate our readers on how to live a happier and simpler life and find value in what we have. We want to support small and local (here in Australia) providing a community of like-minded individuals who are paving the way to a more sustainable future. The Small collective magazine is aimed at women and men who are curious, mindful and looking for a new read that has all things art, travel, craft, design, culture, nature, music, fashion, photography, tips and tricks and eco-friendly practices to a more sustainable way of life. So come along on this journey and get to know all the wonderful individuals, brands, and organisations that you may have never discovered without this lovely collective! The Small Collective is an independent digital and print publication, based in Australia. Our beautiful magazines are created with 100% recycled paper and are printed with vegetable based inks and green electricity. It’s as eco-friendly as it gets. Here at the Small Collective, we have chosen not to number the pages, as we want you to take the time and explore the joys of each of the beautiful features - here enabling you to be surprised by each page and look forward to the next. We understand that you may wish to return to a section to continue reading or to get your craft on. So if you flick to the last page you will find a bookmark to cut out and use. Enjoy! With Love, Liv & The Small Collective
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SUMMARY Esperance, Western Australia Permaculture The impact of covid-19 on the people who make our clothes Dress me slowly Swop Top 5 ways to wear your scrunchies Faded Sun - Embriodery Pattern Sustainable living made easy Eco-anxiety Sustainable lessons we can learn From generations before us Knit your own beanie The quiet power of journaling Defining the gut microbiome and its full function Live Love Nourish baking Loved by the Moon: Zodiac moon signs
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A major cause of illness in Australia is cancer. It has a substantial social and economic impact on individuals, families and the community. Each year, hundreds of thousands of individuals are diagnosed with cancer and additional trauma added to this illness is shown in thousands of diagnosed young adult women, through the loss of hair. Bravery co decided to take control of this illness in style and has created bold head scarves for those cancer warriors and haters to wear and that also give back to those affected, by giving 10% of every sale to the Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation.
Photography: Haydn Cattach, Models: Emily Somers, Darshini Louey, Clare McKenna and Ursula Fucks.
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Emily Somers, a former art director, two-time cancer beater and now the incredible founder of Bravery Co, refused to be a cancer patient and found the lack of fashionable headwear options incredibly frustrating. We had the beautiful pleasure of getting to know Emily’s journey and how through everything she managed to come out on top time and time again and still help others.
their hands up to go on walks, my parents that would do EVERYTHING for me while I recovered at their house, someone to drive me to every appointment and a constant stream of messages to let me know I wasn’t alone. Also, on the days I did feel human, I had people around to make life feel normal by going for brunch, taking trips away for the weekend, having that glass of wine and laughing about terrible tinder dates.
Walk us through your journey? I was told I had cancer a week before my 27th birthday. I was feeling totally fine and living a happy, shiny life - working in advertising, living with two of my best friends and spending what little money I had on travel and cocktails. A little lump popped up under my collarbone but didn’t really worry me until the doctor started explaining the diagnosis options of Tuberculosis, pneumonia or cancer. I never thought I’d pray to have TB, but I did that week. Unfortunately, it ended up being Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a common cancer for people in their 20’s which lurks around in your lymphatic system. Since then I’ve had cancer twice more. The Hodgkin’s relapsed just 8 months after finishing chemo, and last year I was diagnosed with a sarcoma. This came a couple of months after making it 5 years in the clear. What a kick in the guts. And to top this off, the sarcoma was likely caused by the radiation used to treat the Hodgkin’s. (Double kick in the guts.) What did others close to you do for you that made a difference? I honestly wouldn’t have made it through if it weren’t for my friends, family and my now fiancé. You turn into a shell of a human-being through parts of treatment, with all your energy, confidence and brain power stolen. I had to learn to rely on the help of others – which really goes against everything a 20 somethingyear-old is all about. I had friends organise chemo rosters so I had someone new at each session, another friend would fill my inbox with pretty design and photography images every day, and another wrote me a ridiculous poem on every chemo day to start the day laughing. But it was mainly the everyday stuff, like having friends put
Through your amazing determination and courage, how was Bravery Co-created? When you lose your hair, your confidence takes a huge hit. You lose your sense of style and suddenly leaving the house becomes a terrifying ordeal. On top of this, all the headwear brochures the doctors and nurses handed me were depressing as hell! I wore wigs for a while but it wasn’t until I started playing around with scarves, and learnt how to tie loads of different knots and turbans that I finally felt like myself. And so the idea of Bravery Co was born. Now I’m lucky enough to collaborate with illustrators and artists to make kick ass scarves and donate some of the profits to cancer research. I also do lots of turban tutorials via Instagram and run workshops at hospitals. What do you hope to convey through each scarf design? Each scarf has been designed to convey messages of bravery, hope, strength and kick-ass resilience. Whether it be the strength of wildcats, resilient Australian native flowers, the calming nature of the ocean or the support of women, I hope the wearer wraps herself with the scarf and goes about her day feeling a bit stronger knowing the artist’s intention behind the design. What piece of advice that you found helped get you through Cancer twice three times (you absolutely Warrior!)? To find friends going through a similar ordeal. No one gets it like another cancer warrior and I found a chat with them can be more valuable than any psychologist. If you don’t know any, come look me up on @braveryco
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1 MAGAZINE = 1/2 A DAY OF EDUCATION An important part of creating this magazine was knowing that it wasn’t adding more rubbish to this world, so we wanted to ensure that the printer we chose shared the same values. With this in mind, we found a printer that enables our magazine to be printed on eco paper with eco ink. Another important attribute was having the opportunity to support a nonprofit. Here through our beautiful printer who is partnered with CARE Australia, we were able to make this happen. Through each print, a percentage of funds are donated to support a project run by CARE Australia, in Cambodia. These Projects support girls from ethnic minorities through primary school. They also have projects in Nepal and Tanzania with two separate grassroots organisations. One funds skills training for women and the other provides education scholarships for girls in primary and high school. Previously they have also funded projects in Sierra Leone and Uganda, focusing on small business training and scholarships for girls in primary and high school. Each print run measures our impact on ‘Education days’, so for every purchase, our printers let us know exactly how many days are helping to fund each project. Our Printers work closely with their charity partners to work out exactly (as close as possible) what an education day costs for each specific project, factoring in everything that is needed: school fees, uniforms, books, sanitary products, transport, etc. They do this because its more powerful than using a percentage of profits, as the impact is very tangible for customers and clients. So every time you and a friend buy a magazine, you fund one day of education.
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