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.

I will be making the trip back to my Grandmother’s hometown of Missoula, MT this winter. Ever since she passed away over 15 years ago, she has never had a gravestone. I JUST found this out only a year ago. In a couple of months I will have saved up enough money to purchase her stone & go see it all completed! I did this through following my dreams, & starting my own photos business! That’s the good stuff.
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go deep sea fishing.
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Find and meet the my two cousins in Germany whom I have never met.
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See a favorite foreign band in their home country.
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Finish my dissertation and graduate!
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I’d like to see the Lourve one day!
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Run a 5K (lifelong fluffy girl who can’t imagine herself running, but wants to try!)
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I want to learn to sail a boat, and maybe one day own a sailboat to sail at the lake every weekend. One that fits my family of 4.
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Get a Ph.D. Mostly so that I can get mailing labels that say Mr. and Dr. Last Name.
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Ride an Akhal-Teke!
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Loose 50 pounds!
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Write a book
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Do a canoe trip in the Nahanni National Park Reserve, a UNESCO protected wildlife area in the North West Territories (Canada). Found an awesome women-only tour company who does exactly that.. now to find a way to make it happen!
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Travel to Chinda and go to a Panda breeding facility where they will let me hold a baby panda.
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Raise two kids who are considerate, giving and conscious of others. At 5 and 2, this is a work in progress.
As always, fabulous gift bag…I’ve got to get one of those Lemonade Handmade necklaces, I’ve been drooling over them since you first had it in a giveaway…
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Be very comfortable speaking and reading Spanish
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Throw a dinner party.
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Get my MFA
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Write an article for a travel publication!
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Take a tropical vacation.
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Organize an over dressed Bingo night!
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Meet my biological father’s family.
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One of my newest additions to my list is to see a live platypus. I guess a trip to Australia’s in order!
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Have a baby…which happens NEXT month! 🙂
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Live on the beach!
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To build our little sustainable, low impact home. I guess we are really a long way from that.
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Become a successful entrepreneur.
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life list: to find my true love.
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To visit Australia someday.
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Ditch my 9-5 job and start my own business.
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Awesome giveaway!! Something on my life list…to finally be able to have a baby and to run a half marathon. Thank you!
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Visit Egypt!
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Something off my life list is to become an advocate for girls who have been abused
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I would love to write a book and have it published!!!
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Sell my art world-wide!
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Visit in a totally green home and live completely from my own garden….
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I had a roller skating birthday party when I turned 11. I have wanted to do it again since then. This December I turn 37 and I just got pricing for a grown up roller skating birthday party for me and all my wacky friends! We are doing it in the theme of my last one: 1986 in the house!!!!
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To make something of myself. Whatever that may be.
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Bake an elaborate birthday cake for each of my close friends.
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Sell our in-town home, buy a piece of land and build our dream house. The in-town home is recently on the market, so we are making strides!
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i would love to take my mother to greece! her parents are originally from there and it would be amazing to be able to take her to see where she comes from.
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Publish my next book!
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Write and publish a successful novel!
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Visit Ireland and Scotland with my husband and boys!
Jessica McMasters
mcmastersfamily@yahoo.com
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Finish my basement
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To buy our first home! One step closer to starting a family.
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A month long trip through China with my husband and toddler son.
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To become a fruitful professional photographer, and realize the dream of having my own flourishing business doing the one thing I truly love.
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On my list – I’d love to own a summer home to go to when the Texas heat gets over 100 degrees.
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I’d like to always live somewhere where I can hear church bells.
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