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.

Gift lovely boquets of flowers from my own garden to friends and family!
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Go to Italy with my husband.
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Speak French.
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I want to travel outside of the U.S and experience something magical while I am there.
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Run a half marathon.
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Build {or modify} a ‘green house’.
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Visit Greece.
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I want to become a better photographer and travel all over the world taking breath taking photos~ *^^*
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maintain a native plant garden
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Watch baby sea turtles emerge from the sand and dash to the ocean!
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I want to go to Japan. It sounds so easy, but since I had a kid and became a full-time working parent, it seems totally out of reach. My husband and I have set a goal to go before we’re 40, though…so I’d better get cracking.
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Fly first class.
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I’ve always wanted to take an acting class, which would be a major feat for someone and reserved and self-conscious as myself.
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Learn how to hula!
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Clean out my overflowing wardrobe and visit Hawaii with hubby
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Finish settling both of my parents’ estates.
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Reconcile with my family.
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After meeting the Epiphanie Bags rep in Koln, German at Photokina 2012 I must have their bags. I’m excited for the bubblebum pink Lola bag & I will have one. I hope to win it!!! Check them out! So, I am so entering for a chance to win your #1 link here. I have pinned it, tweeted, and facebooked my entries!
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Oh yeah, I’ve also posted to Tumblr. Thanks for the chance.
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I’ve Pinned, Tumblr’d, Google+, Facebooked, Tweeted, Stumble!, and everything in between for Epiphanie Bags. I LOVE their bags. Here’s hoping I can win. I am dying for that bubblebum pink Lola!!!
Here’s the last entry: http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/NikonGoddess
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Teach a class.
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Visit Iceland
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Take a road trip across the US and stop at all the giant balls of twine and ketchup bottles along the way!
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Get my finances under control.
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I want to have portraits painted of my nephews, to give to my mom. 🙂
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Visit Auschwitz.
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Learn how to solder. And how to metalsmith. Pretty much anything with heat and metal because it terrifies me but I’m fascinated by it.
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Make my own cheese. Not every day, just once to be able to say I’ve done it. I should stop putting it off!
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Grow my own food!
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Love the giveaway items, love reading the entries. So much fun! My life list ranges from the mundane (clean out my closets), to the far-flung (take my family on a world tour) to the “harder than it should be” (finishing my daughter’s baby book. She’s almost 5.)
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Go on a spice tour in Zanzibar!
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Learn to surf!
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I would love to go on a road trip!
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To go to Thailand!
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Open a specialty food store!
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Take a weekly photo of the same subject for a year.
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Someday create/design a kitchen that I love with all my heart.
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Travel to the Greek Isles and eat Greek food 24/7!
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Throw an amazing dinner party for all of my friends.
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Go to New Zealand.
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Memorize all 50 state flags. Right now I know 3…well, 2 1/2 – California’s has a bear on it, right?
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Meet all the neighbors on my block, or at least 1 person from each building.
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To write a song and play it with a real live band.
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Donate my hair to Locks to Love!
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See a Journey cover band — but come November I get to hopefully see actual Journey, which is even better. SO EXCITED!!
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Write without being in bondage to fear.
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The one closest to my heart and which also feels the farthest out of reach right now is to visit Italy and see all the places where my ancestors are from.
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Fail harder: Quit my day job and build a private practice in the office space one block from my home.
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To rent an RV and visit all the national parks in Utah with my little family of four.
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Teach my daughter to play piano
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