Celebrating 30 years in the biz
Watters, a native of
Watters, who began painting as a teenager, said she painted mushrooms on a shirt in an attempt to cover a stain she got at work.
Her boss then introduced her to a company who'd developed fabric paint, Watters said, adding that they worked together and ended up creating craft kits with the idea.
Her husband recognized her artistic talents and when he opened his doors in the former Eggleston building on
On a family trip to
"My very first quarter I made
Around 1990, her husband left for
She moved her husband's office upstairs while he was gone and took over his office, Watters said.
Watters laughed when she recalled wondering if the move would cause a divorce when her husband found out but the arrangement continued when he returned.
"He stayed up there a good while until he moved to
"I did very well," Watters said.
Watters, always the artist, said she grew flowers and ivy up the side of the building, hanging silk flowers from the ivy.
Her pink shutters raised a hubbub, she said.
Watters was later forced to move out.
"We started looking and praying and crying," Watters said when she got the news she couldn't stay in the former Eggleston building.
Watters and her husband came to an arrangement to lease her current building and, with the help of church friends, moved her landlord out and her new business into the building on
"Everything is blinged," Watters said.
Watters has recently begun painting wine glass and other items.
One of her favorite projects has been designing shirts for the annual Christmas on the Square, which have become a collector's item for some area residents.
The shirts, which all feature Santa and the iconic
"I think I'm going to retire [doing] the Christmas on the Square next year," Watters said. "It'll be the 30th year."
Watters is also proud of a project she more recently completed for
Ward wore a pair of outfit-matching boots, hand-decorated with 8,000 Swarovski crystals by Watters.
If she doesn't know how to create something, she'll figure it out, she says.
Watters said she taught herself to paint horses after finding out her work was going to be entered in a contest.
More recently, she's taken up painting and attaching crystals to wine glasses after she received a request.
Earlier this year, a large set went to a
Watters' art has gone many places but one hand-lettered red nightshirt ended up in
On a visit to
Watters said she designed a number of projects for Hagman over the years before his death in 2012.
When Hagman later underwent a liver transplant in 1995 after being diagnosed with liver cancer, Watters sent the actor a long red T-shirt that read "How much can I get away with and still go to ... Heaven?" A hand-painted dog with angel wings and a halo graced the left shoulder.
After a voicemail left by Hagman, Watters soon discovered that
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