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 
Finish the holiday recipe collection that I can one day share give to my niece
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Visit all 50 U.S. states. I think I am right around 18 so far.
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Way to have the coolest giveaway on the internet! I would like to buy my mom the car of her dreams: a baby blue Mustang convertible.
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Get something tatooed or pierced.
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Conduct choir and orchestra in Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus.
Best prompt, best giveaway!
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As cheesey as it sounds, learning to be my own best friend…
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Publish a novel. This year I checked off “Grow strawberries.”
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Knit my first sweater (I’m half-way through one for my best friend’s sweet baby boy!).
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#28 cracked me up…I love reading these.
I want to drive a bookmobile made from an airstream trailer.
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Getting myself into shape, and then trying a half marathon again…. Only this time training properly.
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Sing the national anthem at a sporting event.
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Eat street food in Thailand, Vietnam, and Hong Kong all during one BIG trip.
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Ride in a helicopter.
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master the mother sauces
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fund someone else’s college education
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Have underwater photos taken of me as a mermaid!
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Get my partner his first stamp in his first passport.
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Me, please. So many cool things!
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Take a camera class and actually learn how to use my DSLR.
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#85 is to take part in a choreographed flash mob dance. If anyone needs me to be in yours, I’m there!
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Take a road trip across the USA, with enough time to stop where and whenever the fancy strikes.
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spend a summer in Ireland
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To do 100 crunches – I managed 70 today!
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Visit New York!
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Visit the date markets in Iraq. OK, so this might or might not be realistically safe for an American, but it’s a dream of mine.
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#1 on my life list right now is to pick a damn house already, buy it, live in it, and love it.
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#1 on my life list is to get the job I just interviewed for today.
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Ok so I am crap at running and swimming is ehhhh and biking..well. I’m a bit wobbly. So is it too ambitious to want to do a triathlon?
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Get my health in order!
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Do a full Ironman race.
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Master Mandarin.
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Go to Cuba!
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Visit the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland.
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Become bi-lingual, starting Spanish classes this fall!!
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I want to run a half marathon. Not for speed. Just for me.
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Meet Oprah!
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Make a garment that I love to wear.
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Travel around Europe with my husband.
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Visit Cuba
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I want to take and teach s private yoga session.
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Learn to believe in myself…
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Wow! What an impressive, gorgeous prize pack! One item on my life list is to copyedit an entire novel manuscript.
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I’m going to share many, as it’s still only one entry and I LOVE SHARING!
1. Learn how to crochet
2. Take a year off to go sailing
3. Make a stellar osso bucco
4. Build an ofuro in my bathroom
5. Speak Japanese well
6. Knit a sweater for my husband
7. Attend a birth
8. Invent something
9. Learn some kick ass dance moves
10. Go shooting
11. Write a novella
12. Make a beautiful home office
13. Own a piano again
14. Own a bike again
15. Drive all over France
16. Have a best friend
17. Refinish the coffeetable
18. Go scuba diving
19. Meet Eustace Conway
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Plant a fruit tree in my yard. Maybe plum?
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Learn 3 songs on the guitar.
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sublet an apartment in NYC for one perfect autumn.
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Travel abroad. South America maybe? Ireland? Greece? Somewhere other than what I already know.
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When I’m old, do something I’m way too old to do. (I met an 87-year-old hiking the Appalachian trail. Not bad).
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To perfect a biscuit recipe *and write it down* (my sainted great aunt passed without noting or divulging hers. Such a loss!)
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To vacation at a beach that looks like it belongs in a corona commercial….
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