Sometimes special projects come from a friend or a mentor, but often times they come from me. If there is an idea I wish to evolve or I want to create, I do it.
I get so much joy from taking time to spend on projects that I set myself. It helps to feed my creativity, with no one to appease but me.
That freedom allows you to explore your creativity in a different way and for it to be whatever you want it to be, you need that in your process sometimes.