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.

Live in the country with a real barn…and horses.
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On my list is learn to swim. Seriously. It is.
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To travel the Pacific Coast Highway!
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Go on safari in Africa
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Italy and Greece
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It’s something I get to cross off my list only 11 days from today – a trip, just me and my dad. It only took us 41 years to get around to it.
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Oh boy, I have a lot on my list! I think one of the biggest things on my list would be eing a surrogate. I have two kids and I would love to make it possible for a family to experience the same joy my kids bring to me every day.
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Learn to play the guitar!
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Travel with my husband to San Francisco for our one year wedding anniversary in May!
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I will own a cabin in Michigan (where I’m originally from – we live in Chicago now).
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Own a house on St. John in the Virgin Islands (aka, my favorite place in the world)
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To have a natural birth without pain medication.
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Travel to Ireland and see where my family came from.
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To be happy.
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Travel across the US by car with my husband and children, stopping along the way whenever we feel like it.
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I want to build my dream house. On my grandparent’s land.
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spend a summer in Italy with my husband..good food, good wine…cant wait!
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Live in Italy for at least 3 months!
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To live in Maui…before retirement.
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Love your blog! Just bookmarked it for a quick return! Life list item: To climb to the top machu picchu in Peru.
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See Victoria Falls, Iguazu Falls, Detifoss Falls, Angel Falls, and Niagara Falls
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Become fluent in Spanish and French.
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I want to live in Argentina someday…
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Take my daughters to South Africa and take a cable car up Table Mountain to show them where their Granny grew up.
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i’d love the Ephiphanie Camera Bag 🙂
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To become truly confident in who I am, and be completely comfortable in my own skin.
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To finally go on a honeymoon with my husband.
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Take a vacation by myself
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take my kids on a camping trip… not just in my back yard.
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Two weeks in Paris in a little apartment with my best friend.
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See the Fall Foliage in New England
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Become completely comfortable with saying no, regardless of the reaction from others.
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Take a Friday off and lay on the beach with my husband.
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One of the top things on my list is to visit the Galapagos on a Lindblat Expedition!
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Finish my knitting project(s).
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I want to backpack across Europe 🙂
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I would love to see Monticello.
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Get married in a castle!
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Spend a couple of weeks in Italy sightseeing and enjoying some delicious food and wine!
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I’d like to learn another language or two…
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Go on a safari so i can photography all nature has to offer
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I want to learn to shot in manual mode!!!
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Take an overseas trip with my little sister.
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I will learn how to surf! Although my attempts to do so got thwarted repeatedly this summer, I’m not giving up!
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Learn conversational French and feel confident about my Spanish.
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I want to design a line of textiles
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Graduate from school.
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Run a 5k! And then run one of those crazy ones; Run for your Lives or the Color Run. To that end, today I’m starting week 3 of the couch-to-5k plan.
Thanks!
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We are saving for a tv. This is the first time ever we will save for something before we buy it!! It will be very exciting when we cross it off the list!
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Worry less about far-off things that may not even be worth worrying about.
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