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.
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My son, Lyle. He’s awesome!
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Cliche and possibly overdone but how could I not choose creating a human life? By far my greatest accomplishent.
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Having respect for myself and my son while getting divorced. I made sure I conducted my self in a way that I could always look back with no regrets. I have continued to show his father respect even when he doesn’t deserve it. That honestly has been the defining moment in my life and something I am very proud of.
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Definitely proud of completing the Susan G. Komen 3Day. 3 days, 60 miles, with my mother, in some serious August heat and torrential rain…I felt like Wonder Woman.
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Sticking with a high-stress non-profit job (despite constant struggles) because I know I’m making a difference
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Adopting our daughter Ellie.
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Moving to a city where I knew no one, and making friends totally on my own.
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Buying my own home and car as a still young person (at age 23 and 24) all on my lonesome
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My proudest moment was the first night I walked on stage in a professional theatre. I am not an actor but I had friends who didn’t recognize me in character.
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The first time I ran a mile. While I can run much further than that now (training for my second half currently), the first time I ran a whole mile without stopping was so huge – I couldn’t do that in HS!
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I’m most proud that I worked for 33 years and was able to retire at age 55.
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Becoming a mother.
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Moving across the country by myself. Twice.
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My proudest accomplishment so far has been training for and completing a half marathon. I did it through the Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation’s Team In Training, so I raised some money for a great cause in the process.
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My proudest accomplishment? Probably making it through the last five years of uncertainty after Katrina, and coming out on this side finally feeling like I’m on my way.
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My proudest accomplishment is conquering my eating issues & learning to love working out because it makes me feel good and strong (dare I say attractive?).
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Backpacking in Vietnam by myself and not once thinking I needed someone to help me figure things out.
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Moving to two different cities within two years, where I didn’t know a soul, and yet learned how to make a life for myself.
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Studying abroad for a semester my junior year of college despite doubts beforehand and fear while over there. It was a success!
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Running a marathon.
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17 hours of labor followed by a c-section.
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Moving to Japan alone in my early 20s. (10 years later, I still think it was crazy! And, natch, completely badass.)
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As a single woman, working as a secretary (out-dated as the term may be, I know what I am) on a fairly limited budget, owning my own condo makes me pretty damn proud.
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saying yes to love.
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I’ve run multiple half marathons, done several triathlons, been to europe and moved out of state with no job lined up. But the thing I’m most proud of is my decision on who I married.
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I wrote a newspaper article that kept an elderly couple from being evicted.
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Graduating law school and finding a job!
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I worked as an RA last year (and this year, as well, but it’s a very different hall) and made a huge difference in the lives of women living on my floor. I’m so glad I decided to do it!
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Knocking 26 minutes off my half marathon time from my first race to my second race.
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Graduating college with honours after getting mediocre marks in high school, landing a perm government job at 21, and paying off my OSAP in four years. (Ok, that last part hasn’t happened yet, but it will.) Well done self.
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Pretty easy. My three children ages 28, 27, and 13. All successful. All beautiful people.
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hmmm…finishing my first year of law school. boy that was a doosey! (one down, two to go!)
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Cliche, indeed, but my family is my accomplishment — especially holding us together through a major crisis.
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Oh, that necklace is absolutely lovely! My proudest accomplishment? This is a tough one, but I think it’s something I decided NOT to complete — grad school. It was the first really major, and very very difficult, decision I made entirely on my own, without my parents advice. They were very disappointed at first, but it turned out to be pretty much the best decision I’ve ever made, so I’m pretty damn proud of that. 🙂
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I’m most proud of always being able to make my dreams come true.
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Plum is my favorite color! I am proud of my contributions to an iPhone app coming out tomorrow!
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Learning to say I’m sorry. But I’m still working on it!
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I’m proud that I’ve succeeded in digging myself out of debt. Five years ago, I broke up with someone who had put nearly $20,000 of debt on credit cards in my name, without my knowledge. In exactly 12 months, I will be debt-free. I’m so very, very proud of that. (And I’d really love both of these prizes.)
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Being told I’m someone’s mentor. A someone who I can’t help but admire. Humbling.
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re-finding myself in motherhood after losing all sense of Laura during those first few years as a mom.
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My proudest accomplishment was helping my mother die gracefully.
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i’m proudest of paying my own way through university and grad school, with no loans from parents or govt.
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My proudest accomplishment, even after 14 years, is finishing my master’s degree in journalism. Let’s not talk about how I feel now, as the “old” journalism I studied is dying. Heh.
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Because I’m only 24, I still have a lot of awesome things left to accomplish.
But, moving out of my home state and experiencing a COMPLETELY different place has been my proudest accomplishment.
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I’m a really good mom and am raising awesome kids.
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Aside from giving birth to four amazing human beings, my proudest accomplishment is finishing nursing school.
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I have lots of proudest moments (carrying, birthing, and nursing my children), but the one that is just mine and all mine is selling my first fine art piece in my first solo exhibition. It felt great.
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organizing a spring break trip to waveland, mississippi, for hurricane katrina relief.
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Building a life I’m proud of with people who love me for who I am.
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My most recent proud accomplishment is hiking Mount Washington. It felt great to complete something so momentous in one day!
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