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.

Figure out how to craft/knot/knit my own hammock… Hang it inside to sleep on like I did when I lived in Mexico one summer in college.
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Take a portrait of each of my 5 sisters that they love. (This is a challenge since they are very picky).
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Snowshoes and hot chocolate with the family – maybe this winter. What a lovely giveaway!
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Be a lovely, quirky, amusing, clever and prolific blogger who can rack up five hundred and forty-four comments on a giveway post….
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Something on my life list is to climb the hard trail to Machu Picchu.
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Girls weekend with my sisters. Again.
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Get over my fear of riding motorcycles. I have my license and everything – I’m just scared to take one out on the road!
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Ride a motorcycle!
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I want to quit my job, explore the world and become a college professor. (and p.s. I am writing this at work…)
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I’ve always said that I will some day drive a zamboni (even if I do it when I’m 90 years old!)
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Open my own etsy shop 🙂
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Give myself an annual retreat.
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Get married on the beach in my bathing suit and have a bbq reception. I want my day to be fun and relaxed, not stressfull, overdone and cost a lot of money.
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on my list is to buy a small cabin near running water, fix it up, grow a garden, have an outdoor living room in the summers, and spend weekends there with family and any and all friends who want to come.
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Visit every continent.
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Show in a major museum.
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Ski on five continents.
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I’d like to have pictures taken of me that I love to show people. I’d like to do some with my family and some just me. (thanks for the giveaway chance!)
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Can I share two?
1. Run ten miles (never been a runner, I’m at 2 now. 20%! Baby steps.).
2. Visit all the National Parks.
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I want to kayak in Alaska.
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Finish a triathlon!
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Take my daughter to Europe and see the world through her eyes.
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Learn how to beatbox.
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#19: Photograph a tornado.
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start/grow a garden
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I would like to drive cross-country, visiting New Orleans, Texas, and the Grand Canyon.
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#1 on my life list…. Graduate college!
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One of my Life List items is to run a marathon. I just crossed Half Marathon off my list!
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Run a marathon in Chicago
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Be on the beach in a bathing suit and still be confident!
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fresh fruit picking at a farm with my family
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Find or support a non-discriminatory version of the Boy Scouts.
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Make myself a whole outfit – head to toe.
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Backpack through Central and South America
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To own a house with a veggie patch and a place to hang my hammock!
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#1. Celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary.
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I want to travel south america!
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Finally go on my dream trip all over South East Asia, to eat, pray and love it!
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Throw an amazing party for a momentous occasion.
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Collect a wardrobe that makes me feel fantastic.
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This is such a nice giveaway! I am going to start taking Spanish classes.
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find an arrowhead, diamond, gold, fossil, & pearl.
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Sing a song on a Broadway stage!
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See the Aurora Borealis!
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Take a food tour of Thailand
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Stop being afraid of my gynecologist.
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Speak spanish fluently. I have been taking classes for the past year. It is slow going but I understand so much more than I ever did before! xo
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I want to see the midnight sun.
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To grow grapes, lettuce, and flowers in my garden every year, and teach others to garden as well.
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Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
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