US company puts Sarah Palin on the wall

Fans of Sarah Palin can have the Republican vice presidential nominee waving at them from the wall of their living room thanks to a US company that on Wednesday launched life-sized Palin wall stickers.

Dressed in a chic white jacket, black skirt and open-toe shoes, and wearing her signature glasses, the high-resolution image of Palin stands 5 feet six inches (1.67 meters) tall and comes with two choices of accessories -- either Republican Party emblems or a rifle, hockey stick and puck, tiara and lipstick.

"We were thinking about lipstick on a pig or something but we decided to make it a little bit fun, without pushing anyone's buttons," Jason Weisenthal, founder of WallMonkeys.com, which makes the Palin and other graphics to enhance people's walls, told AFP.

The life-size version costs 70 dollars (around 50 euros), a four-foot version costs 40 dollars and "we've just added four, 12-inch versions that you can put on your laptop computer which you can have for 20 bucks," Weisenthal said.

The Palin wall image is the first foray into the political, celebrity, and sports personality market for WallMonkeys, which specialized previously in custom-made removable life-size wall images.

"We decided to go with Sarah Palin because she's probably the most googled woman in the United States right now," Weisenthal said.