When we were pulling together gifts for the Mighty Summit, we set a few aside to give away.
If you’d like to enter to win one, please share an item from your Life List in the comments below. One winner will be chosen from comments on this site, the other from Mighty Summit co-founder Laura Mayes’s Blog Con Queso.
Now for the fine print: Please only leave one comment on each site, 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 Wednesday. You have to live in the United States or Canada to enter, because holy holy the shipping is ludicrous if you don’t. Fingers crossed for you.
Update: We have two winners, announced here and here. Thank you to all who participated!
Here’s what’s up for grabs:
1. Ephiphanie Camera Bag by Maile Wilson (shown in top and side views)
These compartmentalized camera totes were designed by Summit photographer Maile Wilson, who used to wrap her DSLR in a towel and shove it in her purse. Sound familiar? Contest winners can choose form any of the designs and colors shown on the site. So you should probably get a yellow one.
2. Chevron Necklace by Feisty Elle
This delicate wood necklace is by San Francisco designer Leslie Yang of Feisty Elle, who makes light easy pieces that make you look pulled together in jeans and a T-shirt. We love this necklace because it resembles an arrow, which is a symbol of courage.
3. Tieks by Gavrieli
Gah! These are my favorite things. Tieks are beautifully made, non-skid flats that fold up to fit in your purse. Once you try them on, they’ll never leave your feet, and they stand up to years of daily wear. Contest winner can choose among the rainbow of fruit flavors available on the Tieks website.
4. Scarf by Mixed Bag Design
These soft scarves go with everything, and the Mixed Bag website allows you to hold fundraisers for causes close to your heart.
5. Bliss Beauty Soaps and Scrubs
In blood orange and white pepper. Do not eat them.
6. The Quintet Necklace by Lemonade Handmade
Another favorite thing that makes me sigh. Every year, Mighty Summit attendees make a list of five things they hope to accomplish in the coming year. This delicate, simple necklace symbolizes those goals. Tiny brass rings just within reach.
7. Daring Greatly, by Brené Brown
A book that encourages you to go be brave. We are pro bravery around here.
8. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson
Mighty Summit alum Jenny Lawson, a.k.a. The Bloggess, wrote this movingly funny book, which includes a chapter on the very first Mighty Summit, and photos of me slaughtering the author with a meat cleaver.
9. Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
Summit alum Gretchen Rubin is once again on the New York Times Bestseller list with her sequel to the Happiness Project, a tome about a year of seeking happiness at home.
10. Oh Happy Day Piñata
Jordan Ferney, the genius behind the website Oh Happy Day, made these teeny eeny piñatas by hand, and they are perfect. You’ll wish you had two so you could pit them against each other.
11. Lands End Canvas Tote
These extra-large natural zip-top tote bags by Lands End are awesome for trips to the pool or beach, picnics, and summering on your fleet of yachts.
12. Daring Greatly Action Book by Behance
Get started on your Life List goals! This notebook is designed to help you plan visually, too.
Mighty Girl 
Have lunch with Tom Hanks.
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Visit places romanticized by Mary Stewart: the Aegean Islands, Greece, Southern France, the UK, Ireland…
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I want to look the way I feel (strong, fun, calm).
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Travel Russia by train, drink vodka in St. Petersburg and hang out for an entire day at the Hermitage.
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go on safari with my son
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visit all 50 states.
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I want to move to Seattle. I can feel the need to move in my bones.
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I want to star in a production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies.
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Biking through Thailand!
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Try burrata.
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I want to finally finish building our home, learn Portuguese and take my kiddos to Disney!
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Play a round of golf with a legitimate score of less than 100. This will require actually learning to play golf (!), but I’m trying to set my sights high. Thanks, Maggie!
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Get a master’s degree. I’m applying in February!
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Go cage diving with great white sharks!!
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Do a backbend on my own!
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Take a sea kayaking trip on the Maine coast, stopping to camp for the night along the Maine Island Trail.
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Take the time each month to write a letter (poor penmanship and all) to a friend. Who doesn’t love getting mail – especially on lovely stationary?
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Be a paid professional family photographer
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marry my boyfriend in Paris.
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Someday, I want my family to spend the kids’ entire summer vacation in another country.
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#1 on my life list this year is to make my daughter a big sister. I’m not currently pregnant, but I’m throwing it out to the universe that I want to be. Wish me luck!
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Take a canal boat vacation in France.
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Attend week-long surf camp.
Without spouse, children or inhibitions.
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Napa Valley vacation with my sister once she finishes her surgeries next year. It is HAPPENING.
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Learn to surf!
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Open a bottle of champagne with a sword.
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Visit 50 of the world’s great botanical gardens. 25 down, 25 to go.
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Raise a daughter
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Take my family on a month-long trip to Alaska in a Winnebego. (An Airstream would be even better…but let’s not get bogged down in the details!)
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Eat pasta and gelato in Italy with my husband and son.
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Give edible gifts for Christmas.
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To visit/meet my family living in Malta. I’m 1/2 Maltese and have always wanted to experience the beautiful country for myself. Once my husband is finished with his grad school/training we are planning the trip! Can’t come soon enough!
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Life List #14: Take a trip with just my two sisters (no kids or spouses!).
And, really, I better get on this, because my little sister is about to move to Korea!
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Publish my long-written, lonely-on-my-computer manuscript!
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train, start and finish a triathalon!
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Visit every NFL stadium to see a game.
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To visit another country other than Mexico or Canada. Preferably Greece.
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Learn to play the harmonica. 🙂
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I’ve had learn to swim on my life list for a while now. Yesterday I swam 900 yards. Go me.
Exchanging that goal for swim a mile without stopping.
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Take a picture in every state in the USA
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See the Northern Lights!
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Grow my own food.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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Throw a set of pretty bowls to eat breakfast cereal out of.
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I want to fly a plane!
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Try snorkeling
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Visit all 50 state capitol buildings.
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To walk across the Golden Gate bridge and the Brooklyn bridge.
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Learn how to poach eggs
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Learn how to ride a horse and then actually ride one more than occasionally.
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I want to toilet train my 4th child. The freedom, 10 years in to diapering, is like low-hanging fruit right in front of me.
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