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 
Giving birth to my children.
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Realizing my self-worth.. I will NOT settle!
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Learning to run and finishing my first 5k.
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I gave birth on my living room floor.
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moving to Mexico and building a school and having my world view turned upside down.
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I had a baby. In my very own house.
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Giving birth sans drugs to three children.
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My proudest accomplishment’s (going to be) raising my son to be a caring, thinking, laughter-filled guy.
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I’m proud of starting my published writing career at 21.
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My proudest moment is reaching out for help and crawling out of a dark hole. Calling my doctor. Calling a therapist. Bloggers like Heather Armstrong and Danny Evans inspired me to not be afraid to be open about my pain. Embrace it! Learn from it and grow! (cheeseball, I know) I am proud that I asked for help, and I live a happier, healthier life because it. 🙂
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I’m proud that I inspired my Gramma to survive a stroke and renal failure. She walked me down the aisle at my wedding a few months ago!
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My proudest moment was getting into every college I applied to. All nine, count ’em!
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My two children!
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Graduating from grad school. Coming from a family where no one went to college and struggling in High School (then finding out I had a learning disability), the odds were stacked against me. I was proud that I graduated from undergrad but getting my masters was a dream come true!
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Making a really good relationship choice in who I married, and starting a photography business even though you have to be a bit crazy to be an entrepreneur.
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When no one said “you can,” I did it anyway.
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Realizing that I’ve never accomplished anything alone. I have always had support and help from people I love and greatly admire. To attract that kind of love must mean I’m a pretty wonderful person.
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I am most proud of getting through a dozen horrible events that I think would have crippled most people, but only made me stronger… 🙂
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Moving abroad on my own at 23 – 9 years on, I’m still here!
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Taking a job in a field that I love even though the income isn’t as stable as the mind-numbingly dull jobs I did before.
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Hands down, my daughter.
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surviving on next to nothing (and laughter) when i moved to nyc ten years ago.
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Saving enough money on my own to buy a nice house and car, with only a social worker’s income 🙂
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Passing all my licensing exams while SUPER pregnant with my daughter, and then leaving the workforce entirely to raise her and her younger brother.
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Cliche, I know, but it’s my kids. Best things I’ve ever done. Good thing is that I get to keep feeling like I’ve accomplished something big with every one of their developmental milestones.
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I once replaced the alternator in my 1992 Saab (out of sheer poverty motivation). This may even top finishing the Friday crossword and getting my PhD.
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Figuring out how to live in a big city.
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Riding my bike cross country over the course of 9 months. Making myself vulnerable and finding that this country is full of really nice people.
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Hands down, the mightiest thing I’ve ever done was, at the age of 18, lead a cabin of 15-year-olds through the Canadian wilderness for two weeks. Navigating waterfalls, broken canoes, old maps, overgrown portage routes, an evacuation, and a cabin-full of estrogen was my greatest challenge; swimming in the potential and transformation of those mighty young women has been my greatest reward.
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Making a lot of friends at neighborhood barbecues with homemade sausages.
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Leaving a job I hated, buying a house on my own… Sometimes in life I really screw things up, but I figure things out on my own
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Natural childbirth. Hands down.
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My two lovely babes of course. I am also proud that I move to a little town on an island I didn’t know much about when I was quite young to get married and (unexpectedly) started my family there. I was so homesick (quite literally sick to my stomach over it some nights) but I did it, and it has been crazy and hard but beautiful.
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Moving on my own to London from LA at age 22, and actually finding a flat and a job. It was certainly lonely at some times since I didn’t know anyone in the city except my co-workers, but it was definitely worth it in the end. It was probably the most “I am an independent, single woman” time of my life.
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Maybe I’m feeling sappy right now, but at this moment I feel that my greatest accomplishment is allowing myself to put forth who I am so that I can be loved, in great force, for who I am by a very very sweet man.
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Pushing nearly every comfort limit I have to participate in an intense 42 mile competitive canoe race. And finishing with a smile!
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Getting my B.A.!
And I think this count too since I’m 3 months away from completing this… Getting my M.Ed!
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Learning how to take care of myself while still taking care of my family and my students.
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Always making the choice that is true to my dreams.
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I’m proud of so many things I have done, but even more proud of the things that I haven’t done or that are yet to come (like owing a home and perhaps raising a child.)
The greatest of all my accomplishments is this: dusting myself off and getting back up each and every single time I’ve fallen down. While still keeping a smile on my face.
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Up and emigrating to Ireland when I was 22 and making my home here when no where else felt like home before….
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Getting rid of 100 things was one of the most difficult things I have done ever. It took months. But my home is so much nicer and less crowded, and I have found that now it is so much easier to get rid of things I don’t need.
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Finishing my PhD. Blood sweat and tears!
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learning to stand up for myself. Took me a full year of therapy at $120/week. SO WORTH IT.
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marrying the love of my life. cheesy but so true.
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overcoming fears and anxieties completely on my own.
First, having the balls to track down my birth father when I was 15 years old and knocking on his mothers door by myself.
Second, taking my first international trip ever on my own to Ireland as my 30th birthday gift to myself.
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Trying to push my career forward, my marriage and our three children, so my life I guess!
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Finishing my Master’s degree at 23
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I was pretty proud of myself yesterday for going out in a bathing suit in public. I haven’t done that in years.
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I have found a mechanic for my car and also a mechanic for my bike, and they are both trustworthy and take care of me. and i feel good about giving them my money.
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