Updated: Marianne from Looks Good From the Back was commenter 155…which was the number selected by Randomizer.org. And so, she wins! Congratulations, Marianne!
Today, Maggie and Helen Jane and I are all giving away giant gift bags of awesome that were given at Mighty Summit. Great stuff. Stuff you’ll actually use and love.
We’re giving away three bags (each of us is giving away one)….and each bag full is worth over $500. That’s right. So let’s talk about what’s up for grabs. Are you ready?
Let’s do this!
X-Large Natural Zip Top Canvas Tote Bag by Lands End
I love these. They’re great as giant purses or for weekend getaways. You will not be disappointed. (Yours will not say “Sarah” on the front, but it will have the same blue trim.)
I received a pair of these at Mighty Summit last year, and then I bought two more versions throughout the year. These are great because you can keep them in your purse if you want to change out of heels (Tieks fold in half so you can stuff them in your purse), and the quality is amazing. They’re the only flats I’ve found that don’t hurt my feet. And they’re cute. And easy. Basically, I wear them everyday. For real. They come in a ton of colors. The winner gets to choose any pair for $135 and under.
Bamboo Dahlia Necklace By Feisty Elle
Designer Leslie Yang made a silver version of this necklace for Summit attendees. I get compliments every time I wear something from Feisty Elle. Her stuff is just cool.
Neoprene Laptop Case from Mixed Bag
It’s a cool laptop cover. And it smells good too.
Tattly makes temporary tattoos that don’t suck. The end.
A one-year subscription to Typekit, the service that lets you use a variety of fonts on your site without having to serve them as images. This is one of those things that you don’t know how much you want until you have it. I didn’t know I was into fonts. But apparently I am.
Gretchen Rubin is one of my favorite people. She was one of our Mighty Summit attendees this year, and she brought along her New York Times Bestselling book, which is about her year-long experiment in making her life happier. If you haven’t already read this book, you should do that now. It’s time.
The Quintet Necklace by Lemonade Handmade
Each year, Mighty Summit attendees make a list of five goals they want to accomplish over the next year…and then they receive a five-ring necklace to symbolize those five Life List goals. This piece is tiny and simple. I love it.
And that’s it for today. Pretty good, huh? I think so.
To enter please leave a comment here about something on your Life List.
The contest closes next Thursday night (10/13) at midnight PST. Again, Maggie and Helen Jane are doing giveaways as well, so head over there for two more chances to win.
Now for the fine print: Please only leave one comment here, 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 Friday (October 14). Offer eligible only to U.S. and Canada.
I want to take a painting class and someday be able to create a passable landscape painting…
Thanks for the triple chance to win!
Oooh, great gift bags! I just completed two items on my lifelist (backpacking in Alaska and seeing orcas in the wild). Next up, learning how to bake real bread.
I’m checking “learn glassblowing” off my list next month!
LOVE this bundle of goodies!! On my Life List is this big one that I’m working on: Publishing a photography book!
I would love to go skiing…I’ve never been and have always wanted to go. PLEASE PICK ME RANDOM SELECTOR! This stuff is AWESOME!
So many things on my life list – but right now, the one most on my mind is a hot air balloon ride
I am marking another item off my Life List next week … I signed up for singing lessons! (I plan to “kill them softly” with my song. ha!)
Latest addition to my life list: Letterpress my own Christmas cards.
I’d really like to finally learn to drive a stick shift car.
I’m putting my life list together now for Camp Mighty and keep going back to trying to figure out how I can live for a month in Hoi An, Vietnam every 2nd or 3rd year, for the rest of my life. I love that town/country something fierce.
I want to go on a mission trip to India.
Dream.
I want to learn a second language. I realize it may be too late in life for that, but it’s on my life list nonetheless. Maybe I need to take the plunge and buy a Rosetta Stone course.
I also love reading everyone else’s list items. Makes me want to add a couple more things to my own list.
I have been tackling so many life list items over the last couple of years. I’ve quit smoking, I’ve quit drinking, I’ve built my employment doing something I love deeply, and it’s fantastic to have real proof that great things are possible. One of the biggest things on my life list right now? Writing a book. I can feel it squirming around in here somewhere.
Visit Ireland! Crossing off my life list in May of next year!
Yes! I love the necklace with the gold rings. This weekend, I’m crossing “Run in a 5k” off my life list. (Provided I don’t collapse.)
Oooh! Love the totes and the contents, too! I am working hard to complete a major item on my life list: grad school. Someday (!), I will finish my degree, and embark upon a new chapter in my (work) life, starting off with a celebratory (graduation) trip to Hong Kong!
I hope to publish a book of pictures and stories that will chronicle the history of our families…a gift for my children and grandchildren. I need those fonts for my publishing plans…and yearn for the shoes to help me corral grandchildren all day. The bag of goodies looks like a real motivator…a mighty good one!
I want to be fluent in Spanish. My five year old knows more spanish than I do.
On my life list — Learning to belly dance! Thanks for the chance to win all of these cool goodies!
I am learning how to bake delicious gluten free bread!
Balance is currently the focus of my life list. Balance between work and fun. Friends, family, and me time.
I signed up for a photography class that starts in two weeks. Check one thing off the life list
Love this contest! Here’s one more life list goal: hike through the rain forest in Brazil.
This looks awesome! Life list: Watch all of the TED videos. (Silly, I know!)
I want to take an art class.
I want to take my wonderful son on safari while he’s still a kid.
I wanted to start a fire without a match. First, I found me some bored 13 year old boys… and asked them “Wanna light a fire?” YEAH! …then we lit fires on the sidewalk with a flint, and the other neighbors shaking their heads. (It was all kinds of fun.)
See the red tide. And I’m checking that off tomorrow in San Diego!
I want to finish my redecorating projects before my next baby comes (only four weeks left! yikes!)
This is so awesome! Thanks for the opportunity!
Hmm. I’m sad to see that the T&Cs say “Open to US and Canada only” as I live in the UK. But I’m going to enter anyway, and if I win, I’m happy to pay postage, or sacrifice the large items. I lust after that beautiful five ring necklace. It’s beautiful and I *NEED* it!
From my life list: Visit the Amalfi coast in Italy and make tarte au citron from the amazing lemons that grow there.
Such pretty stuff! On my life-list is to attend the Grand Marche d’ Art Contemporain in Paris. Or just PARIS! This WILL happen!
Thanks for the opportunity – love your blog.
I borrowed “Make 1,000 Lovely Things” from Maggie’s list and recently added to it: a garland of tissue paper flowers created from too-crumpled-for-gifts tissue paper to hang over the mantle. It makes me happy every time I look at it.
Fingers crossed! Would love to win this! Thank you!
Oh, what wonderful items! On my life list is to make photo albums from all the pictures I have on my computer. I’ve got one done so far (from a trip we took to Australia).
On my life list is to go to SPACE! I just joined a company that is trying to colonize Mars. Seriously.
“Travel to Spain,” is on my list, and we just booked a trip for next summer!
Have another baby
Come to a conclusion about this baby issue: am I having one or not?
I crossed off running my first half marathon this summer. Next on my list is to visit Hearst Castle. Also, I want to buy a cheese making kit and make some at home since I eat so much of it =)
I want to live with an open mind and an open heart. I want to live in the present not the past or fret about the future.
Bake a pie from scratch! Seeing as it’s Thanksgiving weekend in Canada, I might actually do this one tomorrow!
As part of rounding out my fitness program, I want to do more rock climbing this coming year.
French. The language, not the kiss. I kick myself for bowing out on French in college because the next level was an 8am class.
I’ve gone through a lot of my life list – the one I’d very much like to do next is have a child. There has always been something to do first, and after meeting so many professional, financial and personal goals, this one seems so daunting!
You’ve always got good stuff, Laura. Entering to win this for my lovely wife. On my life list is to travel to at least half of the continents. Two down, minimum of two more to go.
I just completed Plan/Enjoy my dream DIY wedding (to the most amazing person) and am about to complete: USE My PASSPORT and go to Cabo on my honeymoon… travelling always seemed out of reach, and I’m so thrilled we’re making it happen.
I’m making up my own magazine on WordPress, which I didn’t realize was on my life list until after I started doing it. But now I see that it totally is.
the idea of a life list scared me initially, because my gut reaction was stress about a number of goals that i was afraid i wouldn’t accomplish, and then i’d be disappointed in myself. so glad that i got over that
i still think that one of my top (and most scary) life list items will be investing in a house–one that’s not the home i live in, and is solely for me to fix up and re-sell. i’d like to have that done within the next 5 years.
I want to take my kids cross-country and overseas. Or rather, I want to go cross-country (road trip style) and do more overseas travel…and I want to bring my family along so that interesting travel becomes a way of life for them, rather than a life list item.