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 
I would like to learn to line dance or square dance (or both!)
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Take tango lessons, preferably in Argentina.
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It’s not the sexiest thing on my list but I’m working on growing my emergency fund and just this morning took a step to help more cash flow into it.
I’ve also started to tackle “Expand my community” by finding a new volunteering gig.
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In September I crossed off #35 from my list, right after turning 35, take artistic nude photos of myself. It was fun and also traumatic. See here, totally sfw, I promise. http://tiny.cc/ixmwp
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I feel silly about this one, but I really really hope it happens someday: I would like to wear matching underwear consistently. There’s just something so charming and French about having a lovely bra and panties to match.
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AB, I can help! Come to my house and style away! Ha! (Please?)
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I decided that I couldn’t let my life go by without learning to make a kick-ass focaccia. Since I put that item on the list last year, I’ve gone gluten-free, but that hasn’t deterred my pursuit of heavenly bread. If anything, I’m that much more determined to make something that’ll curl my toes!
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knit a sweater…seems silly but it REALLY intimidates me
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Move to the Yukon…except I did that almost 2 years ago now. What’s next? How about…mush a dog team!
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#64 Learn to drive a motorcycle.
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I recently got to check something off my list! Eat a meal at Alinea restaurant in Chicago. No small feat for me, since it’s both pricey, and far from my home in Vancouver, Canada. It’s been on my list for about 4 years, and the feeling of getting to check off one of the biggies made the experience that much more incredible!
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It’s my husband’s dream to own his own garden center, and it’s my dream to help him do that. It would make him so happy! Fingers crossed that this is our year.
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I’m working on my list, and really loving that it will force me to take risks and step outside my comfort zone.
Number one on the list? Take a ballroom dance class.
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Currently high on my Life List – get my teeth straightened (again) so that I don’t dread photos for the rest of my life.
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My life list, which is short thusfar, includes learning how to use a camera. For real.
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– go to an NFL game? check.
– go to an NFL game without having a panic attack upon hearing the roar in the stadium? workin’ on it.
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publish a book, baby.
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I’ve always wanted to see the aurora borealis. AND i just learned that when I do this that I should (and will not) whistle while watching it. To do so would bring evil down upon me and that does not sound like fun.
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I want to become a certified EMT.
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Visit the country of my birth and meet a long-lost relative.
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Right now I’m working on a “101 in 1001” list, but when that’s done, I’m creating a life list. One of my 101 in 1001 items I haven’t completed yet is travel to a foreign country with my husband. I’ve been to several but he hasn’t ever been outside the U.S. and I think it’s so important to travel as much as one can afford to. It’s so enriching and eye-opening.
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I’m half way there; this is my work-in-progress right now: create a bedroom haven for myself.
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Confession – I need to get my list officially written. However one thing on it is to take a hot air balloon trip.
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One of the things on my list (#41, actually) is to organize a 5k for charity. I’ve talked to a few people who have done this and gotten tips, and, I might have just found a route. I’ve talked to my charity of choice (Puppy Hill Farm Animal Rescue) and they’ll support in any way they can, of course, so I’m really hopeful I can make this happen within the year!
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I would like to bake a pie from scratch. I cook but do not bake at all.
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I would like to spend one Bloomsday reading Joyce’s Ulysses!
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life list item: climb mount everest!
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To take Improv classes (which I started doing! – yay!)
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OMG, I want one of those camera bags SO bad. I actually just checked off a life list item last night – score a hat trick (3 goals) in a soccer game! Woohoo! In fact, I slam dunked that puppy and went ahead and scored 4 🙂
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run a second marathon (and beat my time from the first).
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I’m working on changing my lifestyle to include both daily exercise and daily artistic expression.
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I want to go back to college when my kids get older and finish college.
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Skydive!!!
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What a glorious collection of things!
I’ve been doing yearly lists for a couple years now (currently working on 27 before 27) and have been drafting my life list for the last couple of months (but haven’t published it yet!). However, that hasn’t stopped me from working on it already – this summer I learned how to pickle and can and will be eating very well come winter!
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I want to make sure that my kids inherit my love for reading.
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To publish a book. Actually, several books: a book of my poetry, an academic monograph, an edited collection, and a book of translations. All of them are started, none of them are published…YET.
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Buy a new car with 0 miles!!!
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For my life list, in March 2011, my husband and I are quitting our jobs, selling everything, and backpacking around the world. I am so excited!
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Besides actually transferring my life list from my notebook to a public space (we all need a little public encouragement), I will finish (I will!) my memoir about getting a Women’s Studies degree in Texas during the Bush Administration.
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To write a book!
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I’m working on one of my Life List goals right now: Make regular exercise a real habit.
I’ve started running and am training for my first 5k.
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have an affair with a frenchman. 🙂
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On my life list: Teach my nephew something new everytime I get to see him.
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Ever since I read Anne of Green Gables I’ve wanted to see Prince Edward Island!
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I’m working on the idea of a life list. I would really like to go hang gliding. I bet I can try to make that happen.
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I want to sing the National Anthem at a major league baseball game!
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We seemed to have missed it again this year, but one of these days, we’ll make it up to the mountains to see the Aspens change.
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Get my work published in a print magazine, with my name right under the title!
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To visit the Greek Islands.
I was so inspired by your Mighty Summit (and Broad Summit last year) that I’ve planned my 40th birthday party celebration to be a sort of mini summit of sorts. I rented a house out in the wine country of Sonoma County (I live here…) and invited 8 of my closest girlfriends for a ladies only sleepover. I’ve made gift bags for all my friends like you would for a kids party but instead filled it with things I love or things they can use during the sleepover (fluffy socks, eye masks for sleeping, etc.) I even “borrowed” a few ideas I saw in your pics of the Mighty Summit. I bought gallon sized mason jars and tea candles to have on the deck of the house for our outside lounging and have made gift tags for all the party bags with quotes about friendship. You are always so inspiring to me on how to really enjoy life. It’s the details that can really make a big difference. Thanks for always offering such great ideas and making me make my life list.
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Design a holiday window display for a department store in NYC.
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