When we were pulling together gifts for the Mighty Summit, we set a few aside to give away. Here’s what’s up for grabs today:
Large Natural Zip Top Canvas Tote Bag by Lands End
I had no idea how useful these were until I had one. Sturdy, preppy delicious, and just the right size for a weekend away. Yours will not say “Sarah” on the front, but it will have the same trim.
I bought a pair of these genius travel shoes a while back, and they’re one of my favorite things. Tieks fold in half so you can stuff them in your purse, and 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.
Bamboo Dahlia Necklace By Feisty Elle
You know that girl who always looks so cool, and you can never pinpoint what it is about her? Good jewelry. Dahlias are my favorite flower, and designer Leslie Yang made a silver version of this necklace for Summit attendees.
Neoprene Laptop Case from Mixed Bag
Now you can drop your laptop more stylishly than before.
Tattly makes temporary tattoos that don’t suck. We’ve talked about these before, and they’ve come out with a few new designs since. Instant toughness boost for the nerd corps.
A one-year subscription to Typekit, the service that lets you use a variety of fonts on your site without having to serve them as images. Have you noticed the Web has been looking prettier lately? Thank these guys.
Gretchen Rubin was one of our Mighty Summit attendees this year, and she brought along her New York Times Bestselling book, which is about her year-long experiment in making her life happier. I love this idea, and this book.
The Quintet Necklace by Lemonade Handmade
I’ve mentioned this necklace before, we give one to each of the attendees to symbolize the five Life List goals they hope to accomplish in the coming year. I love the necklace for its simplicity, and I like the idea of five golden rings being little commitments to yourself. I wear mine most days until I’ve crossed everything off for the year.
And that’s it for today. Pretty good, huh? To enter please leave a comment about something on your Life List, contest closes next Thursday night at midnight PST. Helen Jane and Laura at The Queso are doing giveaways as well, so head over there for two more chances to win.
Now for the fine print: Please only leave one comment here, because it’s the nice thing to do, and also because multiple entries on Mighty Girl 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 Friday. Offer eligible only to U.S. and Canada.








To eat lobster in Maine. My husband and I have never been to the Northeast together, and this is high on our list. Amazing collection of goodies!
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To be healthy and inspire those around me to try for the same!
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This has got to be the most amazing giveaway I have ever entered. Woah. How generous. I’m working on a gratitude project. I’m trying to focus on one thing that I’m thankful for each day and doument it.
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Scuba diving. Anywhere!
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To go to Japan. It’s intimidating to me to go (price, language…), but I would love to experience the culture of this country!
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My goal for the year is to let go, and stop telling people how hard I’m finding it to have a baby.
Wait – let me explain.
When I was small, a series of tragedies in my family (some truly horrific, some everyday, all at once) imprinted on me the feeling that if you love something, you stand a good chance of losing it.
My rational brain knows this is absurd, but my small, terrified, emotional brain won’t let me forget this lesson.
And now that I have a beautiful, lovely, amazing little girl, I’m paralyzed at the thought of something happening to her. And I’ll act tough and focus on the difficulties when someone asks me about her, or compliments her.
Soon she will understand what I am saying, but she won’t understand why I’m saying these things instead of the things I whisper to her when it’s just the two of us… that I love her, that I’m so happy to have her, that she makes me laugh a million times a day.
So my mighty life list is might small at the moment, but I figure this is pretty important.
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On my life list – cook a Turkey. Going to give it a try this holiday season.
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Maggie! I always hope, hope, hope that I get something from your always fabulous giveaways. Pick me, pick me!
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Thank you for this, you inspire me more than you’ll know. I am up to 17 bullets on my LL right now, about to cross one off in 3 weeks, eat in Chinatown in SF! But the one I am really looking forward to planning is road tripping from denver to the pacific coast. I miss the beach.
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I need to take yoga/meditation seriously. Learning to breathe will be the hardest thing for me, but absolutely necessary.
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Can I aadd this to my life list?
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I feel like going big this year. I’m going to finally make a living off of things I create.
And master the pie crust.
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On my life list: Write a thank you note to all of my teachers.
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Make a bestseller list is tops for me. My first book comes out in March. Fingers crossed!
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Next on my life list, France for the 100th anniversary in 2013!
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To visit every Tudor grave.
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I just crossed two items off my list in one fell swoop: take a vacation with my sister and visit California. Both were just as awesome as I had hoped.
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On my life list – learn how to do those really loud wolf whistles. I can whistle, but only the regular, happy tune kind. There’s been a number of times lately where I needed to get people’s attention and being able to whistle loudly would have really come in handy.
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Learn to make really good bread…I’ll do it someday!
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Take a lampworking class and make my own beads! Even if I just end up with a glass blob, I will wear it happily.
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Hooray!
On my life list: go on safari!
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My number one on my life list was start a family and judging by my belly, things are coming along nicely. A bag of goodies would be a nice treat for me!
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On my life list – Meet Mighty Girl!
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Life List #42 – get my picture taken in a boat on the water, with the Sydney Opera House behind me. Going to happen in a few short weeks – I’m headed to Australia on my honeymoon!
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Lovely gifts from lovely people. You had me at ‘Sarah’.
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Hike across the Grand Canyon. It seems like if I can do that, I could do ANYthing!
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Volunteer on an archeological dig!
(Those necklaces are both so pretty. And so appropriate for an archeological dig, don’t you think?)
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as a mom of two little guys my goal right now is to simply write a life list. it will be so nice to have a list that doesn’t send me around the grocery store or keep track of errands or necessary home improvements…
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I just started my life list this month and realized that Maggie is my Oprah. I’ve found so many good blogs and ideas through you, thank you.
Number fifteen on the life list: learn to design and sew my own clothes
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I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano. It’s such a simple goal, but I can’t wait!
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Crossed of my list – go to Turkey. Working on – becoming fluent in Turkish – just started Turkish 2!
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Finalize the divorce. Onwards and upwards!
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Before the end of the year, I’d like to hike the Appalachian Trail. That could happen, I think.
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Travel all over Europe!
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Wow – what a wonderful collection of delights!
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I want to take my kids on a month long vacation to Europe. They will be teenagers soon and it would be great to have grand adventure together before they go through that “my parents are embarassing” phase!
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What a gorgeous collection of stuff! I want to ride my own motorcycle, eat street food in the Old City of Jerusalem, kiss in the rain in London, and play my ukulele in public 🙂
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But what if my name actually is Sarah? The first thing on my life list is to actually write down my life list. Absent that, the biggest thing on my list already happened. Get married to the man of my dreams at the top of Vail mountain, on skis, in a dress. And then we skied down, hand in hand, and are living happily ever after.
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Oh, what lovely things! Your summits always sound so inspiring, Maggie.
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California road trip!
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Sail across the Atlantic in 35-ish-foot-long sloop. Has been on my “list” since I was seven, probably.
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I want to take Spanish language classes in the next year for sure.
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Next year I hope to (successfully) defend my PhD thesis!
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My three year old daughter’s middle name is Sakura. I want to take her to both Washington DC and Japan to see the trees after which she is named.
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I have a couple food related items on my life list like make butter, mozzarella cheese, and yogurt.
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I want to have monthly dinner parties with friends.
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Get my personal website up and running and learn the basics on guitar!
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Driving the pan-american highway! (then hopefully grad school)
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I accomplished a major life goal by having a beautiful baby boy in august. A current life goal is to go to New York City.
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I am crossing off a HUGE thing on my list this coming May. A BABY!
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