For still life photography I like to use side light and take it at eye level. 

I find that a tripod and a remote (app on my phone) or self timer is a must for a still life photo. Photographing inanimate subjects means that you don't have to worry too much about having a high ISO number, therefore you don't get any noise in your photos. This also means hand held will cause camera shake!

I had the motivation to actually put my photos into a book. To celebrate this I took a photo of the book with my beautiful pink mug from NY, and I used a dried hydrangea in order to have an odd number of objects to tie them together.

What has motivated you today?