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 
Go surfing in Costa Rica
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Learn to knit.
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Learn how to blow glass!
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# 4. Have a big, serious, producing organic garden. I’m at 500 sq ft, not I just need to accomplish the PRODUCING part. More than just okra, at least.
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67. Own a bike with a bell
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Travel to AZ to photograph the Chandler hot air balloon festival.
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I’d love to see the Northern Lights with my husband! And build our dream home in the country… and host family holidays there!
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I failed to show up for Makeup SKills 101, whenever they had that class. I want to learn tto apply liquid eyeliner.
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I want to sit down with my sewing machine and one of the many shoulder bag patterns I’ve ‘pinned’ and actually make one.
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1. Take a reiki class
2. Go geode hunting with my son
3. Go on a great beach vacation for our ten-year anniversary
4. Learn to grill a perfect steak
5. Publish an essay in the nyt sunday magazine
6. Really enjoy my son’s childhood
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Pay back my college scholarship
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Go ziplining! I get to cross this one off in a couple weeks. So excited!
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19. Travel to Africa (Kenya, Tanzania).
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this is incredible!!! what an amazing giveaway! the most recent thing I’ve added to my life list is to see snow on the beach!
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Slaughter and butcher a pig I have raised myself.
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Take an epic trip with my best friend!
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Participate in a community theater production.
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34. Spend a night at Grey Gardens (in the Edies’ bedroom)
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I want to start my own business. Invent something. Go big or go home.
This is me putting it out into the universe and get this life lift item started!
Thanks for the opportunity to win!!! 🙂
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Trek across a glacier in Patagonia w/crampons and all.
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I want to see the Northern Lights – I *will* see the Northern Lights!
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Swim with wild dolphins.
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Lunch with the amazing Carol Burnet!
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kiss on the golden gate bridge (preferably someone i know)!
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Visit Iceland and see the northern lights. Thank you Kristina, #28 for sharing. Awesome.
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New item added for real this year: play ukulele in a band on stage in front of people along side my banjo playing husband.
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Take myself on a weekend spa retreat.
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I would like to visit Haiwaii. I’ve never been there.
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Plant a garden
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I am a family /juvenile lawyer and I would love to become a foster parent and foster at least one child.
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A mudbath at a spa. That’s my most recent one. I have never
Done it and am highly intrigued.
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Fencing lessons!
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stand in the bottom of the grand canyon.
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Build a blanket tent in my living room and have a “camp-out” with my son, complete with ghost stories…
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Learn to speak Swedish fluently. I just love the way it sounds.
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Spend a summer living abroad with my daughter.
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Brew my own batch of beer. Hooray beer! I’m eyeballing the official White House brew 🙂
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Run a half marathon! Scheduled to do it on October 7th! YIKES!
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Plan and brew a beer all by myself
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Write poetry.
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Go on a hot air balloon ride over Napa!
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Go to NYC and see a show (or several) on Broadway.
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Accomplish an 8:23 average pace during a marathon or half-marathon.
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Switch to black coffee. Run a half marathon. Wear every cocktail dress in my closet at least once.
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Make a salad out of vegetables from my garden (have garden first, obvs. Caesar salad does not count).
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Graduate from college!
A couple I have done in the last 18 months: See Wicked, and make a belly cast of my pregnant belly!
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Ski all the way down La Valee Blanche from Mt. Blanc.
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A full marathon… The half ones are going pretty well!
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Learn to snowboard 🙂
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Write life histories of my parents. (Harder than it seems, with a language barrier and traditionally Asian, taciturn parents!)
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