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 
Life List No. 17: finish my PhD.
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…complete my ph.d.
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Here’s a few of mine:
Visit 40 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Eat pizza in New York at one of these: Lombardi’s Little Italy, Grimaldi’s under Brooklyn bridge, Totonno’s Coney Island, Arturo’s Houston St, John’s on Bleeker, Denino’s on Staten Island, Joe’s on Carmike St.
Take cheesy tourist photo at: Statue of Liberty, Taj Mahal, Sphinx, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Equator, Jesus in Rio, Kjeragbolten, “Atlas” with a rock, Salt flats of Bolivia, Abbey Road, Bruce Lee statue, Oscar Wilde’s Grave, Buckingham Palace balls or Michaelangelo’s David, Blackpool wooden portraits, Peace sign, thumbs up, devil’s horns, a-okay signs
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Be able to do a handstand…Working on this one so hard!
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Learn to bake bread.
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Be the best woman, wife, and mom I can be. Soul = fed.
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Sail to Mexico. Also I looooove these contest gifts!
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Stay in a hut over the water in Bora Bora
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Take my husband to Korea. Because it is my homeland.
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To live in a house with a window seat. We’ve got the perfect windows, so now I just need to hire someone to come build it or carve out enough time do my husband to do it.
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Visit 5 other countries and become a mother 🙂
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I want to see the Northern Lights in person.
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start my own business. I’m getting really close!
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I want to learn how to sail.
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buy an around-the-world ticket and take a leave of absence from my job!
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Be a photographer at a White House Gala (State, maybe, or Correspondents’) Dinner. Inspired by the famous photo of John Travolta dancing with Princess Diana.
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To live in Europe for at least a year
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Attend the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival – something I’m doing this October. (w00t!)
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I want to go on a backpacking trip for the first time!
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Learn to sail
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Eat Indian food in India.
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Every 10 years do a 6 month-1 year sabbatical, take classes, try something new, travel, write, photograph, etc.
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Update my wardrobe to be “me”
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Attend and experience a real American Thanksgiving – I’m Canadian and our Thanksgiving is not the same at all (at least according to my American husband!)
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Learn how to drive a motorcycle well enough for someone to ride bitch.
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Yoga Trip to Iceland…soak in the hot springs and ride the Icelandic ponies!
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Rock a killer red dress at a party (I’ve always been a bit of a colorphobe).
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Say no to something and not bad about it. Spend a quiet day with my husband. Find the easy job that pays a lot. Take my dogs to a mountain. Start running again. Buy that kayak and use it.
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To take a risk and move my family back to the city where I think we’ll be happiest. We moved, we tried something different, but it’s never felt like home. Time to make a change.
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Cook a meal with Nigella Lawson.
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Write a children’s book about my grandfather.
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There’s a big one on my list…to go freelance…and this is the year. Scary! Exciting! ACK!
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Start a blog, live abroad, somewhere, anywhere.
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Touch an elephant!
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Go to New Zealand!
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To complete a 1/2 marathon! I’m a life-long non-runner with short thick legs and have been slogging through the Couch to 5K program for three weeks now. This goal feels so far away, but every week I’m a bit closer.
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Life list item – take a week of dance classes in NYC. Been a dream of mine for 20 years. I’m staying in shape and dancing in my hometown so that if I ever get to NYC, I’ll be ready!
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Take a Watercolor Class (already scheduled for this fall!)
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Learn to speak fluent Italian and live in Rome for a year!
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Life List Goal: Go To Camp Mighty! (Which is happening AND it starts on my 28th birthday!)
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Do a month long yoga challenge.
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Go to Norway, Scandinavian Scotland and the Isle of Jersey to do research on my family tree!
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Learn how to use all of the settings on my DSLR.
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It’s kind of silly, but I think owning a pair of Tieks is on my life list. They feel prohibitively expensive, though they really aren’t. I should just go for it… unless I win some!
A more substantial item: See the Aurora Borealis!
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Hike part of the Appalachian Trail.
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Experience international traveling experiences with my kiddos.
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ITALY!
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Learn a foreign language!
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Travel to South Africa.
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I would love to win this…you ladies have an eye for the lovliest things. My Life List is here. http://www.parenthacks.com/lifelist.html While I tend to forget about it, I know it’s making a difference because when I check it every now and then I can often check something off.
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