What about craft ruts?

A coworker of mine was recently telling me that he was feeling depressed and he realized it was from not being able to paint. He is an amazing painter but since he and his wife moved earlier this year, he had to pack his paint up. Their new place isn't conducive and then work picked up and then he had to apply for his job and then it was MONTHS later and he hadn't painted at all. During grad school, someone told me "you've lost your spark" and it made me so very sad. So I took a week off at Thanksgiving and put glitter on everything I could. Squirrels gotta craft, ya heard??

When there are regular life lulls there are still opportunities to craft and a 30-day challenge is just the thing that might help you through the rut (or through having packed up supplies or a rough schedule). Even in the roughest parts of grad school I'd have a minute every day that I could craft.

30 Days of Lists is a good one, run by a friend of mine (Kam! of Campfire Chic) and her friend Amy (Lemons & Raspberry). They do it a couple times a year and it's fun. I signed up for one, it will probably take me like 4 months to complete, but if you weren't trying to get rid of a ton of crafts like me, it would take 30 days:
http://30daysoflists.com/

Kam just launched an app for writers too called Write365 for iphones. She is amazing.

I just started this one and I'm doing it with my gentleman. It's fun being able to talk through the creative process with someone else; a full email conversation about things that begin with "g" is thrilling. At the end of the challenge we're going to scrap it a la 30 Days.

How do you combat hurdles to your creativity??