The morning sessions of the final day of the Summit of Awesome begin at 9:30 am on Friday, June 18.

Elizabeth Newell of Newell Business Law LLC and Handmade Portland will be in Jordan leading the session Time Management for Crafty Folk. Learn some tips and tricks from a chronic multitasker on how to organize your multiple commitments to get more out of your day, your week and your life.

Owning Your Awesomeness with Kelly Rand (pictured at right) of Hello Craft and Crafting a Green World will be in the Library. Do you say thank you when offered a compliment, or do you stammer with an “oh, well gee, it’s really nothing really.” If you are the latter, you need to know and own your own awesomeness. We each have individual experiences and expertise that should be shared with the world in a confident and fearless way.

Christy Petterson of a bardis and Kim Dorn of Hello Craft will be in Parsons leading the session Event Sponsorship.  Looking to take your crafty event to the next level? Learn how sponsorship can help build relationships with the community and help with your finances. Session highlights include how to approach potential sponsors and the pros and cons of big and national versus small and local.

In the Theater will be The Story of Modish with Jena Coray. Jena has been blogging at Modish since 2006 on handmade and vintage goods, art, photography, indie fashion, style muses and personal inspirations. Modish Biztips then came from her want to support and connect with her fellow creative business people. Come hear Jena’s story about working towards making a living off your own creations.

There will be two workshops in the gym at 9:30 am. Jamie Chan of Urban Fauna Studio & Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco will lead the workshop Needle Felting. Learn how wool an be needled into shape to create fun and beautiful objects.

Lee Meredith of Leethal will present the workshop Photographing Your Own Work With Your Own Camera. Lee will share her tips and tricks for how best to photograph your work. Bring your own digital camera and learn to stage, frame and light your craft.

The next set of workshops and sessions begin at 11 am.

Kelly Rand and Sara Dick of Hello Craft will present the session Craft Fair Applications. Kelly and Sara will share some tips to preparing a thorough craft fair application meant to help your crafty biz stand out from the crowd. Learn to choose the right fair for you, what juries look for and how to handle rejection.

Kim Werker (pictured at right) will present the sessions Taking The Pressure Off: When Ugly is Mighty in Jordan. As crafters, we spend much of our time striving for beauty and even for perfection, and avoid the squirmy uncomfortableness that comes with exploring beauty’s nasty underbelly: hideousness. So let’s talk about ugly stuff. If we allow ourselves to go there, we can end up inspired in ways we never imagined, fearless and fueled up to create magnificently beautiful things. That’s what this talk is about. You should come.

In Parsons will be the session Craft Fair Organizing with Cathy Pitters and Torie Nguyen of Crafty Wonderland and Jamie Chan of Urban Fauna Studio & Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco. This crack team will impart their knowledge on how to organize a craft fair. Highlights include exploring fair models and event planning basics.

Danielle Maveal will be in the Theater presenting Best of Etsy Success. With over 3 million users, Etsy the online marketplace can sometimes be a bear to navigate. In this session, Danielle will review the best of the best of Etsy Success tories, chock full of helpful business advice and common sense solutions on how to make your shop run in tip-top shape. This session will be broadcast in the Etsy Virtual Labs.

Two workshops will be in the gym at 11 am.

Christine Claringbold of Eye Pop Art will lead the workshop Mandalas On Vinyl Records. Mandalas are often considered sacred and in this workshop you’ll create a bright and lovely mandala on a reclaimed vinyl record.

Also in the gym will be Becky Striepe of Glue and Glitter with the workshop Make A Cup Glove. Using reclaimed fabric, hand sew a fun and reusable cup glove designed to keep your fingers burn free when getting that cup of hot coffee or tea.