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 writing my dissertation!
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To skydive!!
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Go to Europe. All over.
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This giveaway is fantastic. Fantastic.
One item (that happens to be the most ambitious) I just added to my life list: be famous enough that my birthday is announced on NPR’s Morning Edition.
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At the risk of sounding totally cliche…. write a book (specifically, about my dad’s family history in & after North Korea)!!!!
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Live in an apartment in Paris, even if it’s only for a two week vacation.
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Travel! I don’t need things, but I crave experiences. Specifically, I’d love to spend a month in Paris.
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Oh what a lovely giveaway! An item from my list is to travel to Borneo and visit an Orangutan orphanage.
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I would really like to run a marathon. Sometimes imagining the feeling of accomplishment that would give me is what gets me to the gym when I’m just not feeling it!
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What a great giveaway! Thanks for thinking of us!!!
My life list item that I’m going to get to cross off this winter is to snorkel a reef — I’m heading to Key West in a few months, baby!
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It’s hard to pick a favorite item from my life list….but I think the thing I want to do most in my life is hold a koala like a baby (I have lofty goals, as you can see.)
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I want to take a ballroom dancing class.
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Raise animals like alpacas, sheep, goats, chickens and rabbits on my own little farm.
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I’m making this one happen this weekend: Bury daffodil bulbs and be there to watch them bloom over and over again.
I’m GIDDY.
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I think this is the year that I’ll accomplish the item on my list that inspired me to learn to sew: make my kid a homemade Halloween costume. (She’s going to be Olivia the pig.)
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i want to start a tradition…i’m thinking Friendsgiving, dinner with our close friends and all our kids the weekend before Thanksgiving, and do it every single year
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As I was putting my phone (read: alarm clock) in my bedside table the other night, I saw one of the piece of paper with my life list on it. I started my to do list 9 years ago, but then started re-vamping it a couple of years ago, and I couldn’t bring myself to throw away the original, so now my list spans multiple, different-sized sheets of paper.
So the other night, I see one of the small sheets and the item on the list that stuck out was “Walk El Camino de Santiago in Spain.” My husband and I took a leap of faith (supported by med school student loan money–OUCH) and used his last long summer break to walk the camino this summer. I’ll never ever regret it, even when we are still paying it off in 15 years!!
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Ski the American Birkebeiner!
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Working on my life list. Current project: eat at a restaraunt from every country in the world.
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Host a dinner party under stars or blooming fruit trees
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hard to pick one, but i’d love to have traditional mehndi (henna drawings) done on my hands and feet.
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I have started to pursue my life goal of becoming a naturopathic physician. It is scary to change careers in my 30’s, but I know that it is the right choice for me.
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Learn how to be a wood worker and build some kickin’ furniture.
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I want to fly first-class to Europe.
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See the Northern Lights with my partner.
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I want to take my son camping.
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Taste 200 cheeses (esp since I claim cheese to be my favorite food.)
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To visit the island in Maryland where the inhabitants still use remnants of Olde English.
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I want to go zip-lining. Preferably in Costa Rica. Unfortunately, I think I’ll have to wait until my babies are older to accomplish this one…
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Lovely giveaway package!
I want to get back to travelling – I miss it so much. I’d also love to write a novel/ travel journal/ blog to record my experiences. I didn’t do that when I was travelling a lot before and I regret it.
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Start an animal rescue.
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Buy my grandmothers first house and make it “my own”.
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One of my life goals is to figure out my father’s life – I have a handful of photos and a few random stories to track down.
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Visit Ireland!
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Go to my dad’s hometown and spread his ashes on the hill he used to hang out on when he was young.
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Hike the entire Potawatomi Trail in one day
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I would like to become a Master Gardener.
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Bake a wedding cake for a friend. Not even sure who, but its something I aspire to as a hobby baker.
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Swim a mile.
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Publish a photography book of my photos.
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One of my life list items was to enter something in the Minnesota State Fair. I did this summer & came home with a ribbon!
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Amazing giveaway! I want to run a half marathon. We’ll see if my knees can hold up!
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Leave city life behind for a year and live in the quiet of the country where my feet are on grass more than concrete.
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become a wedding photographer. I photographed a friend’s wedding last weekend and loved it. LOVED it.
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Build a tree house!
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Publish a board game.
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Walk along the Great Wall of China.
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An item from my list: Help someone solve a mystery in his or her family history or past.
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Set foot on every continent.
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To take my mother on a trip to Bora Bora– a place she’s always dreamed of but never been able to afford to see.
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