Brianna McAnnally, a woman from Sumiton, Alabama, has created a customer sticker pack of iconic Alabama locations during her COVID-19 quarantine downtime.
McAnnally sells the stickers herself, via the website Etsy; one pack is $7
When not making stickers, McAnnally is normally a dance teacher at the Athletic Art Center in Jasper, while pursuing a degree in dance pedagogy and elementary education in her spare time.
The Athletic Arts Center was forced to shut its doors due to COVID-19 precautions, and McAnnally says she has been denied unemployment since then.
“I’ve had plenty of time to create new stickers and designs and that’s really been an amazing outlet for me during this time!” McAnally told Yellowhammer News on Friday.
The stickers feature iconic locations from across Alabama such as the Clanton peach water tower and the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
In a post on her store page, McAnally explained that she uses waterproof vinyl to make all of her stickers, and sprays them with a weatherproof coating, so they are safe to use on cars.
Reviews for the stickers on the website where they are sold indicate that the stickers’ smaller size makes them ideal for mugs and laptop cases.
In response to a question on Reddit, McAnally remarked about her sticker construction, “I do try to use the best quality material that I can without having to make the prices too expensive.”
Before she made the pack featuring Alabama locations, McAnally has made a separate sheet of stickers featuring famous sites in Birmingham.
McAnally told Yellowhammer that growing up in Sumiton, which is 30 minutes from Birmingham, she always loved going into the Magic City.
When she recently got the tools and software to make stickers, that was one of the first packs she made.
“Once I got the Birmingham stickers online people loved them and started asking me to do more cities and states,” McAnally explained.
“My next course of action was to make an Alabama sticker pack featuring things from all over the state,” she continued.
The artist said that she had “a difficult time choosing which landmarks to include but I eventually settled on the the Saturn V, the clanton peach water tower, the peanut depot on Morris Avenue, and the Edmund Pettus bridge.”
McAnally says in the future she hopes to do more cities in Alabama and even a second set of state landmarks.
Members of the public interested in purchasing the stickers can do so on McAnally’s Etsy page.
Henry Thornton is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can contact him by email: [email protected] or on Twitter @HenryThornton95
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