I get slumps in my energy levels at any time of the year. Sometimes I am tired, or my attentions have had to be focussed elsewhere. At times like this it is hard to get back in the flow of things.

Over the years I have developed a few strategies that help me to ease myself back into things.

MY Creative kickstarts.

• Playing in a sketchbook/notebook.

• Spending some time on another creative pursuit.

• Playing with my stash.

• Making a scrap busting project.

• Looking at UFO’s.

• Taking an online workshop…

• Taking part in an online challenge…

What you see here are the results of first playing with my stash and attempting to make a kawandi inspired quilt, seen above.

After completion I wanted to use up the scraps and so I put together these small landscapes. They were started at least a year ago, maybe longer, but just this month I picked up the unfinished one and added the stitching on the water and stitched the edging.

All together these activities ticked playing with my stash, making a scrap busting project, and looking at UFO’s.

Following are a couple of some other kickstarter projects that I have undertaken for myself.

I would love to know what you do to get yourself out of a slump, creative or otherwise!