With the many perks/blessings that come with moving into a larger home, some are sometimes so sweet and simple that I never would have expected how happy they could make me....

Reason #247 of why I love living at my new home: the opportunity to fill our living room with a ridiculously huge tree. Reason #248? Getting to hand-craft an original felted wool tree-topper for that tree, in the shape of everyone's favorite starchy faux-deity, the FSM!

There couldn't be a more appropriate Christmas Tree topper for our Anarcho-Buddist-Atheist-Judeo-Christian-Humanist-Pastafarian-Smart-Ass household to have, other than the one-and-only Flying Spaghetti Monster.

To make him (her? it?) I used a combination of methods, including wet felting (the noodles) and needle felting (the meatballs). I'm particularly happy with how the eyestalks came out, as they are poseable. To complete the theme, we even made a garland of vegetable dyed pasta!

All hail His Noodly Appendage!