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.

Take a fencing lesson.
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Take the plunge and start my own business.
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On our 5th wedding anniversary take that 2 weeks in Greece honeymoon we didn’t get to take because of getting laid off then having our babies.
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I had to postpone one of the items on my list – live in India for 2 months – because I got pregnant but I just rebooked the tickets. Next summer my darling 1 1/2 year old and I will be gardening, making music and meditating our way through India! We are so excited!
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I want to learn how to draw. I teach writing at an art school but I can’t even draw a stick figure…. yet….
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Move to North Carolina.
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I want to go to the Isle of Wight music festival in the UK.
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To publish my novel!
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Finish my novel! Finally.
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I want to paint a wall in my house. Choose a color, stop worrying about mistakes, embrace change!!!
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Take surfing lessons -> surf.
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Oh wow, beautiful stuff this year!
On my Life List- Visit Calabria Italy, where half of my genes come from! 🙂
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Publish a piece of nonfiction.
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Travel through new Zealand
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Do a pull up!
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Through hike the Appalachian Trail.
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Life List Item: Quilt a quilt. I’ve made three quilts so far, but never really properly quilted them like my grandmother did. It still awaits.
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Go on a disaster response with the Red Cross.
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Get an agent.
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I would love to buy a cabin in a landscape with mountains and the beach around. Have all of my family there for as long as possible, to spend time with my Aunt that was just diagnosed with cancer.
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Learn how to make pasta – from scratch!
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Watch (from a nice, safe distance) a bear catch a fish out of a stream.
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Take piano lessons again. You know, pick up where I left off 30 years ago.
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Move closer to my family.
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Make one recipe a month from Saveur magazine
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Live abroad for a year. At least.
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To go on a road trip by myself – which I am doing in two weeks!
Yay!!!
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Keep bees.
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Visit Japan to take in all the beauty, the kawaii and the geekery. Then come back, maybe.
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Starting my own business!
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Visit Australia. Learn to surf. Not necessarily at the same time.
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The #1 item on my Life List is to quit my (day)job. My husband is a painter, (and I love to sew)-our dream is to be able to quit our jobs, and be able to support our family doing what we love. That is my driving motivator every day.
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Get out my Condo and into an actual house!
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Get my husband healthy (lots of GI problems this year, including appendectomy and gall bladder removal, PLUS being diagnosed with depression and going through a roller coaster trying to find the right medication/best treatment options) and happy. And find him a new job where they don’t try to fire him for being sick.
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I’d like to take Improv classes (or one at least!)
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Get rostered and play in the WFTDA International Championship tournament for flat track roller derby!
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Travel to Ireland
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I want to show my husband and daughter the Northern Lights in Yellowknife.
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Go to Istanbul.
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To complete my family tree back to my Great-Great Grandparents on both sides.
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go hang gliding!
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Learn to tie a bow tie
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Live in another country for at least six months. I checked this one off my list without realizing it was on there!
On the to-do list still:
See an All-Blacks rugby game in New Zealand
Swim in the Adriatic sea
Have a home where people feel welcome.
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Build a cedar strip canoe!
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Hike the Pacific Crest Trail – all of it.
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Swim with dolphins 🙂
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Go to the All Star Game.
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Get married! Oh, and learn how to bake a cake that actually tastes good.
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I would love to visit a foreign country!
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always take great photos:)
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