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.

Make yogurt from scratch.
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Get current on my 2011 and 2012 scrapbooks 😉
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Run a half marathon.
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Maybe it’s cliche to say it, but the top of my list is definitely to be a Mom. After so many failed attempts and procedures, it is pretty much all I can think about these days.
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Take a vacation by myself.
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Create the business that makes my heart sing (instead of have palpitations if I have to do any public speaking).
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Eat a pot brownie.
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I want to travel to a foreign country by myself!
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[O my goodness, this prize is so swoon-worthy I can barely type.]
Item #57 ‘Stay in a super-deluxe, fancy pants, 5 star plus hotel – and drink champagne in the bath’
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Investigate my genealogy back 10 generations.
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#10 Finish writing and illustrating my children’s book.
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Get married in Italy!
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An item off my life list… to hike the Annapurna Trail. And oh oh how I desire an epiphanie bag. Thanks for the contest 🙂
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Learn to make jewelry
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See the northern lights…in Norway
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Publish a poem that saves someone’s life.
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Take a cross country road trip!
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Catalog – photograph and identify – all of the depression and antique glassware that my grandmother gave me over the years. I really regret that I didn’t ask her to tell me more about the family stories behind the pieces (beyond stuff like “This candy dish was your great-great-grandmother’s… I can remember eating boiled sweets out of it as a treat when I was a little girl”) and now it is too late, because Grandma has Alzheimer’s.
Working on my collection is my tribute to Grandma and the love of antiques that she gave me.
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love them all!
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Live in a house built before 1920!
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#46: Eat a hot dog in every state in the U.S.!
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Climb a Redwood & check out the vast amount of species in it’s canopy!
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I’d like to write a large check to support local arts.
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Buy a really nice camera and take amazing photos of my daughters and my yellow labs!
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I really, really, really want to spend the night in an ice hotel. I want to sleep with my husband all bundled up in 4 coats and a sleeping bag – staring up and across the room at an ice chandelier. It will happen.
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I would love to visit Spain.
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I’d like to bring my family to visit the family of one of our summer ESL exchange students in Germany. I’ve been to visit and his family has been to the states, but I think it would be nice to bring things full circle.
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Move to NYC for a year. My husband and I would love to take a year to live in a tiny apartment in the city while renting out our lovely house in Baltimore.
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18. Sell one of my screenplays.
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I want to keep a journal for a year – I’m a month in!
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Write a book.
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Go deep water soloing (rock climbing without a rope over the ocean)!
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Quit my job, sell the house, give away everything and hunt the world for a cure for my son’s autism
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Theres plenty of serious stiff on mine,but right now all i think sbout is howI want to visit Lucy the margate city elephant!
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I WOULD LOVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE BOOK OUT OF MY HEAD SO THAT I COULD FINALLY WRITE ABOUT DYING IN A CAR WRECK AND BEING BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE. IT IS THERE…I JUST CAN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO WRITE IT!! THAT WOULD BE MY TOP LIFE LIST ACCOMPLISHMENT!
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Dress in white, carrying a decadent hamper of delicious foods and wine, an attend the Dinner en Blanc next summer in Philadelphia.
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An item at the top of my list is to write a novel!
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Set up and use skype with my family on the west coast.
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To have an apartment in Paris.
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Feel confident wearing jeans with my shirt tucked in.
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I’d love to buy a lakefront cabin to spend the rest of my summers at.
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Own a home with a dining room.
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I want to take up running so I can run a marathon someday!
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Share the loot from this prize with somebody.
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Just one thing on my life list? Ok, fine. I want to learn to play the steel drums.
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Learn how to play the ukelele (and do it well!)
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Visiting Paris is top of mind, because I will be going in 2 weeks!
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To return to the advocacy summit I just attended as a speaker next year. Hopefully with 75 fewer pounds, less guilt and more hope.
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I’m going to add the lifelist item I just checked off because I’m still riding the high: Participate in a Random Act of Culture flashmob (I was in the Carmina Burano O Fortuna flashmob at Philly’s 30th Street Station on Sept 15)
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I want to be able to enter giveaways. Kidding. I want to own my apartament.
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