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 
This is one I crossed off my list – I visited Pompeii.
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Take a black smithing class.
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#25 Build a kite with my boys and teach them how to fly it.
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#33: Watch the Grunion Run
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Write and illustrate a children’s book.
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Set foot on five more continents, and live overseas for at least five years 🙂
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I won the giveaway a couple years back and I carry the tote that Maggie sent me to work at my DREAM job a couple of days a week. I just got an email from my boss offering me a chance to do it full time at a rate that is more than fair. Following your dreams can make you more than happy, striving to fill your life with experiences that make you complete can be more than its own reward. Your life can shift. It gets better. WAY better.
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Run a marathon!
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Run a 5k – I’m slowly, very slowly, working my way towards it now.
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learn to play the viola.
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I started on one of my life list items last week: live where I want, not just where the job is. I’m on day 10, and already I love being near friends and family and in a part of the country that feels like home to me.
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Save enough money to buy a vintage VW Squareback, have it retrofitted to run on bio-diesel, and the interior/exterior customized in my fave color combo – turquoise & red. I know, total self-centered decadence. But I swear, that’s not the case of my list in its entirety.
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See the Northern Lights with my sons and husband…
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Run a half marathon without stopping.
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Although difficult to coordinate, someday, I WILL attend the 11 cities race in Friesland! Come winter, I’m always monitoring the race announcements and price of tickets to the Netherlands!
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Join Roller Derby!
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Spend a night at an ice hotel!
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#13: Learn to speak French.
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Live and work abroad.
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Cook 100 dishes authentic to 100 different countries!
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I will run a marathon. All 26 miles. I will.
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I want to learn how to pick a lock. It would sure beat having to pry open a second floor window the next time i lock my keys in the house!
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I would like to swim in the Bay Bridge to Bridge 10km swim. I swim everyday now, but have never tried open water distance swimming, so that’s step one. 🙂
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Ever since I was about six years old, one of my most solidified life goals has been to write a book.
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have a baby
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Before I graduate medical school (goal #1) I want to run a half marathon (goal #2). My life list goal for this year is to do a month of daily sketches. Three goals! Three years!
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#15 on my life list is to spend a week in South Africa diving with sharks.
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#10 on my list is to drive the entire length of PCH
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Sit in on Supreme Court oral arguments.
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To open my own thrift store with to die for vintage goods. All at reasonable prices. Encourage people to reduce, reuse, recycle.
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Can something that I grew myself. I can’t grow things. I can’t can. One of my earliest memories is being in a high chair in my grandmother’s kitchen while she was canning. My grandma could make anything taste good and the memory of her canned peaches is something I want to pass on to my kids since she isn’t here to do it! It’s a strange life list item because it isn’t BIG but to me my grandma was the world.
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Spend a month on vacation on an island without internet.
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Have a full woodshop to play in.
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I want to buy my dad a new car, outright. Someday.
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learn to play the violin again after giving it up when I was 18. I played for 8 years as a kid and I miss it!
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Record an album of my own original songs.
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visit the Galapagos Islands
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The latest thing on my list is a combo, one year watch hot air balloons flying in the desert, and the next year fly in one. Scared to death, but I think that’s what makes it even better
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Play the organ at Dodger Stadium.
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Donate to every local city/state public radio station that I’ve enjoyed listening to.. From South Dakota to Atlanta to Seattle to Minnesota. (I’m awful about donating now.)
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Kayak around icebergs.
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Write a book.
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Re-upholster a chair.
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learn how to espalier a tree!
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Go on a backpacking trip alone.
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Swim with dolphins!
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Dream in another language.
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Woo! What neat stuff! Cheers!
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Visit the sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica!
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hike Na Pali coastline on Kaua’i!
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