I love painting roses. For years, I painted them on anything that would sit still — furniture, flower pots, even stray scraps of wood. My husband used to tease me, saying he feared I’d paint him if he napped too long. He joked that he might wake up covered in roses! At Christmastime, I paint ornaments with hand-painted roses and give them to friends and family. One year, I gave my best friend a rose-covered ornament. She looked at it and asked, “Where’d you get the sticker?” That’s when I realized I’d gotten too good at it — so perfect, it looked machine-made! Since then, I’ve focused on making my…