Bean necklaces to promote plant based diet - Fruits and Veggies & Needle work Monday / 豆ネックレス再び
This is an experimental post to wonderful Monday communities: #NeedleworkMonday and #FruitsAndVeggiesMonday.
It's Meatless Monday. I'm a part time vegetarian on Mondays and the other days. I like veggies and beans. They are simply tasty. In addition I may be able to be friendly to the environment.
I wanted to promote vegetables and beans for our joy and the future. One idea is to make necklaces with beans and organize an exhibition. I started working this idea 6 years ago and some hibernation period followed ... as always ;)
My intention is to catch attention of visitors to necklace and then beans: "Wow nice necklaces. Ah it's made of beans!" It may trigger visitors to be interested in beans and eat them more.
In my early 30s I was or still I'm an artist in my heart. I exhibited my digital and non digital art works. I liked the style to shed light on a topic I was interested in as an artwork and discuss about my thought in the background with visitors.
I have to make a lot of bead and think about various necklace design. A lot to do but I'm simply happy just by seeing these beautiful beans.
Yes that's my Needlework and Fruits and Veggies Monday.
I wish both communities are fine for my post as it's neither a typical veg post nor a work in which needles are intensively used.
数年前Meatless Mondayを知って以来、月曜日はベジタリアンの日（なるべく）です。
ベジタリアンにしよう！と気合いを入れなくても、たまたまベジタリアン/ビーガンになっているくらい野菜や豆が好きです。環境にもいいし、押し付けがましくなくソフトに野菜や豆のよさを伝えられないかなと考えています。
豆ネックレスはもうかれこれ6年前に思いついたひとつのアイデアで、豆で作ったネックレスを展示して、見にきてくれた人に豆に関心を持ってもらえないかなというものです。1年前に昔の写真を偶然見つけてSteemitにも書きました。
最近自分が持っている人生の時間を何かいいことに使いたいなと思って、豆ネックレスがまたぱっと頭の中に出てきました。今年こそ少しずつ作って展示ができたらいいな :)
About Fruits and Veggies Monday
Fruits and Veggies Monday was created by @lenasveganliving and hosted by @plantstoplanks.
About Needlework Monday
Initiated by @crosheille and @crystalize. Now it has its own account @needleworkmonday. Thank you for hosting a wonderful & fun weekly tag!
Very creative, great post
Thanks @gguy773 :)
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豆チョーカーカッコイイですね〜(￣▽￣)
黙ってたら石と勘違いされそうかも🎶
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ハンドメイド職人のSuminyan10さんからそういっていただけると恥ずかしいやら嬉しいやらです。探してみるとおもしろい石のような豆があるんですよ。ただ、うまく穴を開けないと皮が破れたり豆が破れたり、石のようにどの方向からも穴が開けられないのがなかなか。。
What a creative entry! I love the idea of using beans for jewelry. Definitely a conversation piece. I love all types of beans, so I would totally be excited to have a necklace like that. Thank you for joining in this week!
Good to hear so :) I was wondering this kind of entry is OK to #fruitsandveggiesmonday. Ya beans are nice and a lot to explore. Thank you for hosting the great contest!
I love your experiment! I am a vegetarian since school and I always think I should eat more beans :-D THey are so healthy, and I also love the taste. But on the other hand I am a bit unplanned in regard of our meals ... So, I mostly forget to soak them and we end with eating mostly chickpeas or kidney beans as you can get them frozen or in a can. I must change this!!!!
Your artwork is a wonderful idea. And the idea to let it sprout is even better. In this manner, you will show the power behind such a tiny bean which is alive after being dried or used as an necklace.
I also could imagine hair pieces out of beans and wire, or a wire which forms a small bowl and contains micro greens .... Sorry, I start to ramble.
Love your idea. Do you already have a place to exhibit?
Happy to receive a comment from a real artist @neumannsalva!
I didn't know you are an vegetarian. I didn't eat meat when I was a high school student around 15-18 years old and now a big veggie fan while I like to eat meat/fish modestly.
I agree with you that cooking beans needs planning & preparation. Soybeans have to be soaked over night and cooked at least 2-3 hours (!) I do in a batch and make them frozen.
Hair pieces with sprouting beans might be an interesting live art work :)
I think about asking for some place in Berlin to host an exhibition as there might be more audience than Leipzig where I'm now living in and I know some designers and artists who may connect me to galleries ... Or a guerrilla exhibition on street or at a environment protest can be more Berlin-ish :D
In my opinion everybody who makes art is an artist 😍🌺🌈 And your bean jewelleries are definitely art. I can imagine a cool performance on the street with these life artworks and I guess it would also reach more and divers people than an exhibition in a ‚normal‘ gallery.
I have never frozen beans myself, but this sounds like a great and convenient idea (as I mostly cook a bit spontaneous 😂)
Italian cannellini and Japanese soy beans are sleeping in my German fridge now :D It's also beautiful and can be the reason I like beans that there are variety of beans and beloved all over the world.
I have seen rice jewelry and now bean jewelry.. that's just all awesome! Beans are beautiful and delicious too
I didn't know there is rice jewelry. I must google it. I'm curious about it as I'm from rice & bean nation Japan :D
豆ネックレス、とても素敵です。私もオーストラリアに住むようになってから、レンティルやひよこ豆が好きになりました。
レンティルのスープを冬に作ると体が温まります。
近所にあるインド食料品店にたまに行きますが、見たことのないような豆が売っていて、見ていて楽しいです (^^)v
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私もドイツに移ってからレンティルやひよこ豆食べるようになりました。日本だと輸入食品店にいかないと手に入らなかったのと、あとあっても高いんですよね。。もちろん輸入しているから仕方ないのですが・・・。
レンティルのぬくぬく料理といえば、お父ちゃんの出身の南ドイツのGerman Lentils with Spaetzleがなんとも冬においしいのです。もうすぐ暖かくなってしまうので食べおさめをしておきたいなと思いました。Sallyさんはもうすぐ秋ですよね。こちらは夏になったらレンティルのサラダをしようと思います。
オーストラリアにはインド食品店もあるんですね。いいなあ。こちらはアジアはひとまとめです。豆といえば中東系のお店が楽しいです。
豆ネックレスかわいいですね〜！
すごいアイディアです✨
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ありがとうございます。うれしいです :)
The jewelry looks great and I think there are other plant parts that could be used. But I presume you have to take care that such jewellry doesn't get wet ;)
Those with sprouts can be nice too :D Can be watered in the last half of the exhibition!
Very creative and really environmentally minded, too <3 I love the idea! Bean necklaces to promote plant based diet ! So cool, and the necklaces are very pretty, too <3
Happy to receive a cheering comment from an artist @veryspider! I'll think about and make some more variety :)