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 
Successfully complete a Master Gardener program.
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Road trip across America! My husband, who is from Canada, has been to more states than I have on tour with his former band. I, of course, have romanticized this and now want to road trip with my husband and son for a month. My husband tells me that it wasn’t all I imagine it to be, but you know what? It could be!!
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Learn enough Italian to talk to my extended family.
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– Get a PhD in Computer Science. (Passed my qualifying exam!)
– Make a quilt out of my old t-shirts.
– Gamble in Atlantic City. (Hoping to do this over Christmas break!)
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I completed my first goal, participating in a 12km run/walk. I was sore but it was so satisfying!
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i want to be a mom.
… i really don’t think there would be anything more beautiful to accomplish.
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a life list item…to learn how to letterpress and make my own cards.
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#9 Build a well for a village in Africa. This means saving $5000 that I can give away. With 2 kids in college right now, that is some serious saving…I will do it though!
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Oh Maggie, you’re killing me.
Did I mention the excuse to buy sexy shoes? Ah yes, that was in the last one. But these are such nice pretty sexy shoes, that would work with my poor deformed painful feet…
On the last giveaway, I read every single entry, thinking it would inspire me. I got exactly one new idea for my life list. Are people so uncreative they all want to travel to Ireland, Italy and Iceland? I mean, yes, traveling in those places would be great, but what will you do once you get there?
Ok, enough bitching. Should have my own blog, huh?
I want to make a set of wooden blocks for a baby. And play with them. The blocks, and the baby, together.
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I just crossed #14 off my list: get engaged! Even after finding my wonderful boyfriend (of 3.5 years), I still had to get comfortable enough with marriage to let him know I was ready. That was the not so easy part, but once I realized that life is one giant leap of faith, sometimes more calculated leaps, I just had to trust…and more importantly LOVE. And we both couldn’t be happier.
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Own furniture that is solid, pretty and doesn’t require an Ikea allen wrench to put together.
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I got to mark something off my life list this past weekend! After having not seen my faraway best friend for more than three years, we snuck away from our regular lives and met up for a getaway weekend in Portland, Oregon. It was divine!
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So many wonderful life list entries in the comments… My next list item to cross off is to throw an amazing and memorable 30th birthday party for myself next month.
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I’m taking my first digital photography class as part of my life list. It’s even better than I had hoped!
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As an Italian New Orlenian who loves food and spent her childhood in the kitchen listening to my mother’s stories while she cooked, my favorite item on my current life list: create a family cookbook
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I want to attend a live performance of Saturday Night Live. Apparently you can only get them by emailing ONLY in the month of August. Someday…
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Hmmm… master the 50mm/f1.8!
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Something on my life list that I work toward every single day: graduate medical school!
I think I need to add some simpler goals as well though, too many of mine will take too many years…
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I must learn to preserve and can!
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To speak French fluently – I currently live in Paris so I’m working on it!
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One thing on my life list: Join a secret society. I don’t know where to find one, so I just started my own! ^_^
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Lake Titicaca.
For reals.
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I’ve been dying to try a pair of those shoes, but just can’t see myself swinging the cash right now. as for my life list? I want to sell the things I make, but am afraid no one out there will want it. I need to just take the plunge, but the water seems oh so dangerously cold!
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earn my ph.d.
I’m about one month away from reaching this goal and I couldn’t be prouder of myself and my husband who has supported me in every way.
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Ooooooh! All of these would be perfect right now, I’m going on a trip to Italy with two of my girlfriends next month.
One item from my life list? To visit 6 of the 7 continents… all but Antarctica.
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Own nothing that I do not use at least one a month (for most things it would be once a week, but hey, I don’t bake very often.)
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Resurrect my writing career.
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I want to learn to scuba dive!
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Learn how to ride a horse! I always wanted to take lessons when I was little but my dad thought if I did I would want to *own* a horse, so he wouldn’t let me.
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I’d like to finally receive my doctorate.
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Learn to cook/recreate my grandmother’s recipe for roast and homemade noodles (a longtime family favorite) and serve it to all of my immediate family and inlaws.
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attend the annual Over the Rhine Christmas concert at the Taft Theatre in Cincinnati . . . just might make that one happen this year.
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To make a quilt with my grandmothers fabric!
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I’d like to be able to do 5 unassisted pullups
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Next thing on my life list to tackle is to get a degree in fashion design. 2011 you’re looking like a good place to start.
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23.Prepare for and climb Mira Peak in Nepal with my husband sans porter.
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Learn to use my sewing machine (to repurpose old clothes and make cute things for my kids and home)!
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I’d like to have a baby in my living room.
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Same dream my entire life …
Buy land, build a cabin, and care for rescued farm aminals. :o)
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Go apple picking and bake fresh apple pies.
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From my life list: master a few good Indian curries!
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Start a vegetable garden in my backyard.
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Find the perfect lipstick. I have it pictured in my mind, some sort of raspberry/plum color but have never found it. Is that life list material? I have big life list items but I’ve been dreaming about this lipstick for 10 years that I think it’s worthy now of being a life list item 🙂
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To go an entire month without wearing jeans!!
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Learn conversational Spanish (classes start next week) and then take a trip to Spain.
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Knit something amazing. Swim in every state. Become a doctor.
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Become a Scotch drinker. Check!
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Become a nurse and work at a free clinic for the uninsured.
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get my masters degree.
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Oh, those shoes. COVET.
I started writing a novel in July and am about 35,000 words into it – about halfway done the first draft. I want to finish it and then map out the rest of the trilogy I see it kicking off, then sell those bad boys so the rest of the world can read them. It’s a big, crazy dream and no one knows about it yet but my husband. And now all of you 🙂
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