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 
Play ‘freight train’ the entire way through on my epiphone guitar.
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Have a photoshoot in the rain – with yellow rainboots, a fantastically unique umbrella and the biggest smile ever. I ordered the boots yesterday. I’m on the lookout for the umbrella…
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Do my part to keep libraries alive and well.
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To see whales in their natural habitat. I can’t wait!
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My life list includes really boring things though! Hmm, trying to pick the most interesting. Oh! I have been working toward (and I’m getting closer) learning how to spin my own yarn. Okay, still lame. But it’s on the list! (along with becoming a mom so really you can see how ordinary mine is)
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Just checked off walking across the Brooklyn Bridge – now focusing efforts on riding in a hot air balloon.
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on thursday they announce the latest winner of the nobel prize for literature, which is pertinent to my life list goal of reading something by every single winner
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One of the items one my life list is to make it a habit to take more photographs. My son’s childhood is flying by, and I seldom remember to pick up my camera.
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I want to go see an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House when I’m back in New York.
I also really want those flats.
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At the top of my list is a trip with my husband to Costa Rica.
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I would like to travel out the of country! I live in Oregon and the only country I’ve visited besides the US is Canada – I’d like to go to France.
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I want to learn Spanish well enough to converse (at least with pleasantries) and order at restaurants! 🙂
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My next life list item: to finally sit down, as an adult, and have a detailed conversation with my mother about my biological father, about whom I know nothing. It’s going to happen this Thanksgiving.
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I’m still working on my life list but one of the biggest challenges on it is to lose 100lbs and not find them again.
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I just crossed one off last week – learn how to poach an egg perfectly (yay! so much easier than I thought it would be!)
To do this winter: learn how to knit something other than a scarf or a hat
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Visit my cousin in Turkey, and travel around Ireland with my mother. Both happening (hopefully) next year!
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To give a substantial amount of money to a worthy arts organization.
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I want to take cooking lessons in Greece with my husband.
(This is the first time I put that out to the world!)
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To be a poet laureate.
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One of my life list to-do’s to hike a portion of the Appalachian trail! I have been wanting to do it for years and I finally decided to start training/planning and saving for it after making my life list this year!
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I want to start bike touring! It has always been a dream of mine but I sort of gave it up when my son was born. I’m realizing I’m not quite ready to give up on it.
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My list includes:
Learn how to row (done!)
Carry my camera with me everywhere, every day (done! since November of 2009!)
Learn to play an instrument, preferably piano or guitar
Live Somewhere Else for at least a year (I’m moving to Spain in 6 weeks!)
Become fluent in another language (see previous!)
Own a house by the time I’m thirty (6 years to go on this one)
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To travel through one European country the seedy, hostel-y, student way.
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#19. Tour the White House.
Just so happens, I’ll be able to mark that off by noon on Thursday! Woot!
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I want to run a paper and stationery store.
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I want to take cooking classes at the Culinary Institute in Hudson Valley and then using the awesome techniques I learned to throw a fab dinner party!
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Learn to use my SLR camera as more than just a point-n-shoot.
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I would like to do another half-Ironman so that I can stitch the two together and pretend I did a full one.
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Donate my hair to create a wig for cancer. Currently in the growing out phase. Cut off the majority of my hair last year to get all the hair dye out because I was getting impatient.
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Next to do on my list – buy a roasting pan and roast a chicken!
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I REALLY want to sing an Ella Fitzgerald song on stage, preferably into an old microphone while wearing a blue sequined dress. Not that I’ve given this any thought.
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I want to have a novel published.
It’s scary just to admit that.
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If I can’t be naturally ambidextrous, I will teach myself a skill with my left hand.
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I will run a bookmobile!
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to make space for the enjoyment of the now rather than always planning for enjoyment in the future.
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I want to spend a week in a quiet cabin by a lake where I’d spend days reading, tossing the ball for the dog, and playing in the water with my kids.
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Host an outdoor movie party in my backyard. Must contain jammies, picnic blankets, a projector and a white sheet as a screen.
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Have a solo exhibition of my art in New York City.
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Travel to Egypt.
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I’m adding “Visit all of Arizona’s dams” to my list, because apparently, we’ve got a lot.
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Attend a Tour de France race in person.
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Participate in a dancing flash mob.
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Have the best little knitting/yarn store that people love to visit and sit and knit with me.
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Become fluent in a foreign language. Oh, and develop some hand-eye coordination…
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I’d like to attend BlogHer!
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Own a home again and decorate it perfectly for me however impractical others might think it is
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Write and record a song. Maybe even perform somewhere.
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I just checked this one off the other weekend: sell my art at an art market/fair. It was a small market, but the experience has inspired me to apply to a bigger one. Also – 10 days until I leave on an RV trip across the west – that’s been a biggie on my Life List for a while!
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I’m working on learning to crochet. I’ve gone the chain stitch down.
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My whole life list is here: http://sassafrasmama.blogspot.com/2010/08/life-list-update.html
One of those items is to teach my son to appreciate a variety of fruits of veggies. On my mind because tonight’s broccoli effort was a fail. Onward and upward.
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