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.

Go on a safari in Africa!
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Take my daughters to London, just us girls.
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I want to eat a French macaron in Paris.
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Run a marathon in a foreign country!
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Start a free online school for struggling musicians, artists, and authors to teach them how to properly market, promote and sell their products online. Working on it now!!
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On my list is learning to drive. My years of city living have left me license free.
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Visit a nude beach, nude.
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To ride the Pacific Coast highway with my dad.
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Have an article published in the NY Times.
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Have Tapas at a boulevard cafe in Spain.
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I’d like to learn how to make a crossword puzzle!
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Conquer anxiety & depression.
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Conduct a symphony!
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Climb Machu Picchu!
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Amazing prize! I am Irish and Italian, so I want/need/MUST go to Ireland (again) and Italy (for the first time). This will happen!
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Dog-sledding on a glacier under the midnight sun in Iceland.
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Live in the mountains!
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skydive! And visit all the national parks.
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Build a treehouse with my kids.
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Learn how to take beautiful pictures with my newfangled camera 🙂
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Go to Australia for a month!
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skydive also 🙂
Thinking about it gives me the scared tickly feeling under my feet.
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I will tell you what I told Laura, on my Life List for 2013 is to get to MoM 2.0 for the first time. Thanks for the giveaway!
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Create a piece of art or writing that I am proud to show people : )
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Do a triathlon relay with my two sisters.
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I want to have a magnificent library like in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast!
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Find a job that makes me excited to go to work every day!
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To hug Big Bird.
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Sing every day with my children.
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Skydive for my 50th birthday.
And take my daughter to Africa, to get HER life-list jump started.
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Write and defend my dissertation (did this last month!!!)
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Travel overseas this summer with my family of three!
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Bike a “century” race
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See an active volcano up close!
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Just one? Okay: Go into space.
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Swim across the Gibraltar Strait.
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Finish my prerequisites for Nursing School!
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To meet Tina Fey and make her genuinely laugh.
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Visit a hot air balloon festival
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To try 1,000 new foods (I am fairly unadventurous when eating).
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I want to milk a cow!
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I want to start my own consulting business!
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28. Make bacalao al pil pil, a crepe cake, crème brûlée and roast a whole goat.
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To spend a month in Ireland, then England then France
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Take my husband and son to the Texas State Fair!
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instill a passion for nature in my boys
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to live overseas with my adorable husband and (what i assume will be) adorable children
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Attend the Edwardian Ball *and* build a fantastic outfit to wear for the occasion.
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Horseback riding in Argentina or Chile!
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Tree lighting in Rockefeller Center
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