How do you start your crafts?

How do you start your crafts, what inspires you? I will tell you my story....The majority of my successful creations (successful means I like them so much and they are so cute that I will repeat them for my online shop) - it may be crocheted things, painted stones (started recently doing it!), covers for gadgets - come up because I need this 'something' myself. Here is a real story. When my fiance proposed and gave me a beautiful ring I crocheted and felted a little nested bowl to keep this treasury (I told this story before). The latest thing was a crocheted sleeve for my new phone. It's a bit of rare in my place maker and as a new model it did not have a full range of accessories as for example IPhone would have. I searched globally and was not pleased with available covers so I crocheted a sleeve from a very luxurious (and expensive, too) yarn - it is beige and golden, here how it looks like.

Now it is in my Etsy Shop

I am really very pleased with the result and the smartphone enjoys it, too, I believe :)

It is interesting how you come to your best craft ideas and implementations? What helps you to switch your imagination on?  I have a survey on my mail page at the right part, wondering if you like to answer just one question?