Today’s giveaway is a little more symbolic. First up is the Quintet Necklace, by one of my favorite etsy jewelers Lemonade Handmade:
Gold Rings Necklace — the Quintet by Lemonade Handmade
I’ve mentioned this necklace before, we gave one to each of the attendees to symbolize the five Life List goals they hoped to accomplish in the coming year. (Nicole did a lovely write up about it.) I love the necklace for its simplicity, and I like the idea of five golden rings being little commitments to yourself. I’ve been wearing mine every day since the Summit. Lovely.
Every year, we have an artist make limited edition prints to commemorate the weekend. This year Alma and Mike Loveland of Ollibird.com did block prints of the vintage blankets we lug onsite to keep everyone warm.
Alma, whose yellow sweater you may remember from a previous post, did the illustrations.
Mike hand painted the blankets for a little pop of color.
Mike and Alma teach all kinds of art and computer classes and they live in the Salt Lake City area. In fact, they’re hosting an art weekend in Salt Lake at this very moment, so head over if you’re in town.
The finished prints each featured a different color, but yours will be plum.
To enter, please tell us about your proudest accomplishment in comments. And the drawings are still open for our the Mighty Summit Giftbag and the Summit Necklace and Brooch giveaway, so throw your hat in there too.
Fine print: Please only leave one comment for each giveaway, 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 Thursday.
Mighty Girl 
finding a job I like.
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Writing and passing my qualification exam was a big one for me. 4 years of undergrad plus 2 years of grad school was a lot of time to have riding on just one test 🙂
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Cliche though it may be, I am most proud of my children. Especially when they are polite and thoughtful, that just makes my heart swell! Teenagers can be awesome.
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one of my proudest accomplishments is performing stand-up comedy for the first time in front of 70+ strangers. I was also six months pregnant and I killed.
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Becoming an EMT at 19 years old and working as a ski patroller. I thought I needed to “move on” but would like to do it again someday.
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My proudest accomplishment was finishing an olympic distance triathlon (and raising almost $1000 for Respiratory health awareness and research) despite never having trained for anything before, and having to overcome severe exercise induced asthma to do it.
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Realizing that I could actually make a living as an artist. It’s a huge thing for me.
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carrying twins to term, then losing the 75 pounds of baby weight that got them there.
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My daughter. Simple. 🙂
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My proudest accomplishment is getting into the graduate programme I really shouldn’t have cos I didn’t have some of the necessaries, and knocking it out of the park while I was there.
Oh, and using what I learned during that time each and every day.
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Wearing cap and gown, breast feeding my newborn so he’d sleep quietly through my university commencement ceremony.
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My life is my proudest accomplishment. I have a loving marriage, a delightful daughter, a close family, a successful career, a creative outlet, a comfortable home. There are day to day stresses and distresses, but when I step back and survey it all, it’s a pretty darn good accomplishment.
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It sounds cliche, but it’s just so true: giving birth to my daughter – and managing to make it through without drugs!
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Running my first marathon. The first one is the hardest.
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being a one car family in a pro-car town.
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My proudest accomplishment was earning my master’s degree. I’ve never faced a bigger challenge and was able to defeat it 🙂
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Learning a language well enough to dream in it. Giving birth to my son. Getting my degrees. Oops, that’s more than one. I guess I can’t choose…
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Recently, I’m proud of myself for taking control of my Ph.D. program.
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Today, in this moment, feeling like I’ve made a lot of good decisions in my life. Major decisions have been torturous for me in the past because of how much I fear about what will happen once they’ve been made. I’m happy to report that I’ve dun good.
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I’m pretty proud that I found a publishing job a month out of college in one of the worst economies.
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Hard to pick proudest without a big soul-search, but I’m pretty proud of traveling around Europe, mostly alone, during my junior year of college.
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Leaving an unhealthy relationship and making the decision to move across the country, all by my lonesome. Sold everything that I owned (except my books!), packed a suitcase and jumped on a plane, two weeks after making said decision. It literally changed every single aspect of my life, in mostly really fantastic ways.
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I’m proud that I had the courage to change my dissertation topic even though I had a draft written for the first topic! I like this new topic so much more.
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My proudest moment to date is moving across the country to go to graduate school for architecture… it took some guts on my part to leave the comfy south for Chicago 🙂
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Getting that internship in NYC and rocking it. Proving to everyone (including myself!) that I could handle the city and the job and even flourish there.
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my proudest accomplishment? Probably realizing my dream of becoming a therapist, finishing my masters, and being in a job that I really really love!
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Adopting and raising twin special needs sons. They are almost out of the nest. So there! to those social workers who thought they would never live independently.
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Having the courage to undergo chemotherapy.
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I backpacked around Italy for 3 weeks alone. I was so scared to do it, but it really helped me gain a great deal of confidence.
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Leaving family and friends behind to move to a brand new city and building a life all my own.
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I love that necklace so much that I may buy it anyway.
My biggest accomplishment was leaving my steady, consistent, miserable corporate job to do social media marketing for a small internet company.
I was laid off two months later, but taking that leap was the most freeing thing I’ve ever done.
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When I was 18, I wrote a play that was performed by an actual theater company. I haven’t really done anything like that since (aside from writing a very bad novel during NANOWRIMO a couple years ago) but to this day that was my proudest moment.
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Aggressive debt repayment to put me on the way to being debt free.
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Being not only a supportive sister but an advocate for my younger brother, who has autism.
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that my teenage son and i are close friends and that he trusts me with his dreams and heart
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Making a beautiful, healthy, fearless human being.
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It’s been a while, but finishing school is still my biggest achievement. I think I need to go back soon though and not rest on my laurels.
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Overcoming. Over. And over. And over again.
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Graduating from law school.
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having my second kid – because it seemed to balance me out and make me a better person/mother
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I’m hoping my proudest achievement is yet to come.
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quitting my job as an accountant to pursue my dream to be an architect. defended my thesis to earn my master of architecture last week!!
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Proudest moment was having my beautiful daughter tell me she loves me “so very much mommy”.
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Winning a photography contest in high school…. which was about 15 years ago. Seems like I might should get busy with more proud making stuff.
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Buying and renovating (Ok, still slowly renovating) my own house alone as a wee young thing.
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In high school: taking my ACT at an international school in Berlin, with a headache and on four hours of sleep, and getting a 33 out of 36.
To date: playing the ukulele in front of 10 people.
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Choosing to commit to writing, even though I have so much yet to learn, and no guarantee of success.
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Being married for 9 years. It’s a huge accomplishment for a commitment-phoebe like me.
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earning my phd in organic chemistry
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I think my finest accomplishment was becoming complete and utterly comfortable with myself. It makes me a better person for myself, and it makes me feel so solid and secure in my relationship, because I know I’m with him because I want to be, not because I need to be. And I know if I ever end up alone, I’ll be ok. And nothing feels better than that.
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