When we were pulling together gifts for the Mighty Summit, we set a few aside to give away. There will be Summit giveaways on Mighty Girl all this week, but this first one is a doozy. Here’s what’s up for grabs today:
I bought a pair of these perfect ultimate travel shoes a while back, and they’re one of my new favorite things. Tieks fold in half so you can stuff them in your purse, but the quality is amazing. They come in all sorts of candy colors and metallics — plus they pack flat and slip off easily when you’re heading through airport security. The winner gets to choose any pair for $135 and under. I recommend orange.
Photojojo’s Tokyo Dreamer Strap
I can’t believe how long it took me to replace my ugly, logoed camera strap. Photojojo’s Tokyo Dreamer strap really dresses up your camera, and even has a little pocket for extra memory cards or a lens cloth.
Lola Epiphanie Camera Bag by Maile Wilson
Maile was an attendee at this year’s Summit, and she brought along her bright Epiphanie camera bags. I use mine as my everyday purse and have finally stopped busting expensive lenses and gadgets by wrapping them in hand towels and shoving them into an un-padded purse. Now I can have my SLR, my flip, and my phone(s) with me without anything banging together and cracking or getting scratched by my keys.
And that’s it for today. Pretty good, huh? To enter to win, please leave a comment about something on your Life List.
Now for the fine print: Please only leave one comment, because it’s the nice thing to do, and also because multiple entries will be disqualified. I’ll use random.org to select the winner, and I’ll announce who won at the top of this post and in a separate post next Tuesday.
Mighty Girl 
To have coffee and croissants in Paris.
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However impossible this dream might be, I’ve added Live in a Lighthouse as a new goal. Anything involving crashing waves, aran sweaters and saving the lives of mariners everywhere does it for me.
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Ride a tandem bicycle!
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There is only one thing on my lifelist right now. I’ve been telling myself that until that’s done, there will be no additions.
It’s almost done.
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I tried to go skydiving this past weekend, but it was too windy. Trying again in a week.
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At some point, I want to travel to Germany to see the remnants of WWII – like the concentration camps. A bit of a downer, I know, but it’s a huge part of the world’s history. And I feel like being there will make a bigger impact on me than reading and watching historical videos can. I want to truly understand the scale of it all.
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Take a solo trip for personal growth, not professional growth in 2011 and OH get picked for Mighty Summit 2011.
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At the top of my life list: get a Ph.D. in immunology. That means a second B.S. first. Then a Master’s.
Also: finding a babysitter so I have time to do any of it.
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Maintain a snail mail correspondence for one year.
I started this, now I just need to complete it.
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Oooooh, I love all of those things.
On my Life List:
Attend Holi in India
(Preferably not as a tourist. I want to have been living there for at least 6 months at that point.)
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Finally take a photographer class.
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I am still working on making a life list. Currently I am just loving the life I am living now. But, man, it could use a new camera bag in it.
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On my life list is taking voice and dance lessons. You know, so I can become a triple threat – a singing, dancing comedian. Isn’t that what everyone’s looking for in an entertainer?
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My son started preschool yesterday and he went to bed last night with ease and slept through the night. It’s the first time the two have happened in one night in his entire two years and it made me feel like I could conquer my world, one life list item at time.
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To go to Italy, as cliche as it sounds, and wander around and eat too much prosciutto and pizza and drink tons of wine.
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find a job i love!
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Invent a sandwich. Yeah, yeah. Silly. I know. But it will be a really great sandwich.
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I’m working towards my goal of knitting myself an entire sweater. Currently: knitting a small dress for my niece. This will be the first thing I’ve knit that I’m going to give to someone (if it doesn’t turn out horrendous that is!)
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Run a 5K!
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To get really really good at something. I have no idea where my talent lies, but I must have some in there somewhere…I just need to figure out what it is!
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Watched my girl teach something to my boy earlier today. Pretty satisfying.
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A doozy indeed!
I want to learn how to do calligraphy. That would help make my life really beautiful.
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Make a truly spectacular martini!
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To take my son up in a hot air balloon.
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Visit the very remote island, in Ireland, where my mother grew up.
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Wow, scary cool giveaway! There are several items on my list that I’m working toward (long-term stuff), but the one affecting me day-to-day is to do some yoga every day for a month. Even just one sun salutation counts!
Thanks!
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To read the books in the library alphabetically, just like Francie Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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Something on my life list is to visit France and Germany. I’ve been saving up frequent flyer miles for years and I think next summer may be it!
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Speak French fluently
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wear shorts, miniskirt, or dress next summer (uh… have body issues… working on it…)
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I put raise a guide dog on mine last year when I did the mondo beyondo class – so far so good – we have been raising Orchid since December and she is a super dog.
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Wow, I so want all of that amazing stuff. From my life list, recently accomplished:
– Unearthed an arrowhead on an archaeological dig
– Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge
Hoping to accomplish in the near future:
– Take a drawing class
– Treat my mom to a Caribbean cruise
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I want to visit my hometown again, in the Mojave Desert, California. It’s been YEARS since I’ve been back…around 13, and I miss it.
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I crossed #66 off my list this weekend: Cook an ostrich egg. http://bit.ly/8XhgpO Great fun to drill into it. Not so much fun to smell.
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I’m working on finding a job that I love or, finding a way to make a job out what I already love to do.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
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To take my kids to Paris!
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Live in Tuscany for six months!
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Create something and sell it. Also, taste 50 bourbons.
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I haven’t written out a life list, but I did take the plunge and get pregnant this year, instead of waiting for the mythical “perfect timing.” I think it’s all going to work out, too! Very exciting.
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To stand on top of a mountain in New Zealand and just breathe.
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Own my own business!
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I just crossed off my #91, which is to get classy family photos taken. Next up? Finish knitting a baby sweater whose instructions have foiled me FOUR times. My baby is only two months old, but I’m gonna make it toddler-sized just in case things don’t go as planned…
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my mom instilled in her children the importance of healthy living (she was a nurse after all!). when she lost her battle with cancer, i seemed to forget those lessons. i began running again a few months ago, and began to find a place where i felt the self-love, strength, and determination my mom so easily brought into my life each day she was alive. this january will mark five years since she has been gone, and my goal is to run a 10k to remember her, raise money for cancer research, and celebrate her life and the feelings she always enlivened in me. (after a 10k we will move on to a half marathon!)
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I just started my life list and right now the two things I am actively trying to complete are:
1) find the perfect little black dress
2) make a baby
These two things may potentially conflict 🙂
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I haven’t officially compiled my Life LIst yet. But, the events of the last week have inspired me to become more socially active, and volunteer.
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Accept that I, and not someone else, am responsible for my sense of self-worth.
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I recently told my dad that I wanted to learn the names of trees in my area and keep a notebook of drawings of the flowers, leaves, bark, and tree shapes. He bought me a tree identification book for my birthday! Right now I’m headed outside to tackle tree #1.
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On my Life List: going back to Hawaii, with my children. The journey itself might kill us, but when we get there, I’d like for them to experience the utter peace and beauty there. It’s otherworldly.
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Style a shelter mag story!
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to live on an island in maine!
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