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 
…that i love what i do for a living…
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Finally losing weight! Every day I’m closer to having the body I want, and I’m really looking forward to reaching my ultimate goal.
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Making it through that anxiety ridden first week of living abroad by myself. Anytime I am worried about a new situation I just have to remind myself that I made it through those 7 days and therefore can do anything.
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Oof. That’s a really tough question! Right at this moment, I’m going to say my proudest accomplishment was getting a job with my dream organization.
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Overcoming low self esteem. Tough job, but SO liberating and the catalyst for many other proud accomplishments!
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Buying my house!
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my proudest accomplishment has been my marriage. staying married, no matter how wonderful your spouse is, is always an accomplishment, if you ask me.
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After a tough first birth, pursuing my dream of a natural drug-free birth for my second – and achieving it!
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My children….
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I’m super-proud of learning how to speak out against sexism, racism, and general fear of The Other — and then incorporating that into my creative work.
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What has made me the most proud in my life are the letters I’ve received from my students and graduates about how I have impacted them and helped them finish school. One boy wrote to me that he will now be someone in the eyes of his newborn son because I helped him earn his high school diploma.
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I’ve been talking with a co-worker about this VERY thing and how I have a really hard time finding an accomplishment that I’m proud of….what a random occurance that it’s part of today’s post.
I really love that necklace though, so lets think of something, shall we?
Mmk. I’m proud that I started my own business. Even if in the end, it failed. At least I don’t have to always wonder how it would have turned out! 😉
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Making Law Review!
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I loved reading these comments!
I’m proud of moving from ny to la and back when my mother needed me.
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Birthing my son…(after 100 hours of labor)!!!
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Saying ‘yes’ to the man I love and not letting go of the other things that make me me. Or to put it another way- believing in myself enough to try to have it all.
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Proudest accomplishment…..making it through labor.
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Becoming a teacher.
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Making a life for myself here at school, and feeling prepared to leave it all in just a few short months.
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It’s got to be my children. I’m pretty fond of them. 🙂
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Ooh, Alma did my blog header, I love their work! Those blankies are pretty.
If we’re braggin’, I will admit I feel proud of myself for finally finishing my Ph.D, and in a year when I had breast cancer too. Bring it on, 2011!
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Raising my 19 year old to be a happy and kind man. Who also got a great scholarship to university. I can take credit for him, right?
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Leaving a passionless marriage.
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Living honestly and accepting the consequences that brings with it!
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Getting my degree in history when everyone tried to talk me out of it.
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Moving to Washington by myself and thriving.
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finishing my Phd.
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Accomplishment: I got a degree that took me three years to do, in a subject I wasn’t particularly interested in. Proudest Accomplishment: wrangling said degree in such a manner that it works for the things I *am* interested in. Win!
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Quitting living in the comfortable and starting my own business! Making beautiful things to add to the world is the most rewarding thing I’ve done.
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My proudest accomplishment is graduating with a degree in architecture. My BEST accomplishment is having my awesome baby girl Carolyn.
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Getting my masters degree.
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I taught kindergarteners how to read!
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I believed that I would get another chance to love. To be loved. I believed. In the face of a whole lot of reasons not to believe. I did.
And I’m so glad I did. Because THIS feeling. Of loving and being loved – not just by another person – but the one in the mirror….it’s worth believing in and celebrating as an accomplishment.
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Mine is a tie: being the first in my family to graduate college and finishing a half-marathon. Both required incredible amounts of time and I couldn’t have done either without the help of great family and friends. So, while in a way I was proud of myself, I was proud of the people who helped me get there, too.
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returning to school at 43, becoming an RN at 48 and keeping up with all the young nurses on and off the unit
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My dad recently referred to my life as a buzzsaw. I consistently get myself into pretty ridiculous situations and have usually managed through sheer stubbornness to survive them. Some memorable moments include getting lost in China, living on a boat for six months, living in Prague for four months, and commuting between two cities every week for my grad degree (seven more months!).
I think that my proudest accomplishment, in all of the crazy, is hanging on to and maintaining my relationship with my husband. Five years married; eight years together.
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Knowing that I am an awesome mom and that my son absolutely adores me.
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my little first grader is learning to read, and he says that i’m the best teacher.
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Breastfeeding my son. I was very freaked out by the idea for some reason; almost like a phobia. My husband talked me into trying and I ended up breast feeding most of his first year of life.
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Marrying someone I like!
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I’m not the first to say it, but giving birth without drugs made me feel like I could do anything else I put my mind to.
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Living by myself in China for a year after undergrad.
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Having my babies.
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Finishing my masters degree and starting my life over after graduation the way I wanted to live it.
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finishing graduate school.
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My proudest accomplishment thus far: getting into my “dream” grad school. It’s up to me now.
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It’s a tie between creating a job that I’m good at and like and creating a person that is good and I like.
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One of them is definitely graduating with my Bachelors in Women’s Studies. I was the first to graduate from a 4 year college from both sides of my family.
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I’ve never been exercise-inclined, so training for and completing a 5K on my 28th birthday was a big deal for me.
And, okay, my daughters rank way up there, too!
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My proudest accomplishment in life is going back to school to get my music degree in flute performance. I’ve never been a person of strong self-confidence, and it took a lot of it to go back to school for a subject that’s not exactly guaranteed to have a job waiting for you at graduation, let alone learning to deal with the daily feeling of being the strange older person still in undergraduate school. It’s taken guts and a great deal of faith in myself, and I’m proud that I’ve done it.
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