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When the coronavirus pandemic began last year, Carolina Tolladay Vidal’s pinata business in Anchorage went to pieces — and not in a good way for a pinata maker.
“Many of the projects I had were moved to other dates,” she told Alaska Public Media. “Many were canceled.”
Tolladay Vidal had to find fresh ideas to rejuvenate her business and settled on making large, coronavirus-shaped pinatas.
After Tolladay Vidal posted a photograph of a homemade coronavirus pinata on social media, the orders started piling up, she said.
“I think you really smash them and break them and hit them with meaning,” she said. “Because it has been tough for everybody.”