ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 22nd August 2026

Episode Date: August 21, 2026

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod... we FINALLY know what Hayley is crafting...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Zedium Podcast Network. It's Fletchhorn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. I've got a conundrum, and actually, if producer Shannon could help me here, craft Quinn. Now, you know, I've been, should we call it a long days I've been crafting. I'm working on a few different projects. So, that's something you're going to bring in here one day. Yeah, I am going to bring it in here, and when I do, you're going to ooh and R.

But producer Shannon, I have a question for you. as our craft queen. Yes. Have you ever worked with gold leaf? Oh, dude. And it is worse than glitter. Wow. Okay, so here's my conundrum, right? I'm making something.

You're going to see it, and it's getting finished. I don't know. Oh, here we go. Something like that. Here we go. So I'm gold leafing something, let's just say. I'm in the garage. I've set up my workspace.

The thing I'm gold leafing is laid down. I've got my adhesive spray. I spray at a distance. Let it get to. tacky pull out the sheet it's like like this it's like little hair and I put it on and it all kind of just falls apart

and it sticks to my fingers and then I was like okay what the problem is is that I've got the garage door open so the wind is getting a magold lens oh yeah oh yeah so then I shut the garage door and about 30 minutes later I'm talking to a green goblin because I'm high on the fumes of the adhesive so what is the secret here I genuinely know the answer I knew she would

No, she would. I'm confident of the answer. Okay. The best application method is a makeup brush. Specifically, do you remember in 2016 how we all used fan brushes? Yes. A fan brush is the number one application method. It holds onto it, but is soft enough to then transfer.

Because I was using a paint brush, you see, and it was pulling it right off. No, no, no, no. Oh, no. It has to be a fan makeup brush. How do you know so much about crafts? I just, I've always been a crafter, like, as a. a kid. My mum was a kindi teacher,

so I started going to kindy when I was two days old. She just bought me. So advanced. That's why she knows all the history stuff, because she literally started learning well before we did. Yeah. Yeah, no, but so mum started taking me to kindi, so I was just sat at a crafting table and it was just me.

The whole time I was like, why didn't I just get it? Is this the podcast? Yeah. Why don't I get a fucking can of gold spray paint? Like, this shit is just a mess. Yes. And it's an absolute nightmare. But I'm like, every day I've just got like,

Guardian Shannon on my shoulder because I know she's going to be loving this Here's a tease for what I'm making There's gold leaf Yeah Love There's velvet There's tassels

I'm so good for this Have you eaten any of the gold leaf yet Because it was edible So much of it yesterday Well like It's edible It was all on my fingers And I started cooking dinner

And there was like gold Through my salad And I was like If you go to a fancy restaurant They do like gold steaks and stuff I got a cheap one I got the cheap gold leaves at sink Yeah

actual quality gold leaf It's edible. Oh, I don't have that budget. Okay. It's very common in fancy restaurants. Okay, so I need to get a little soft makeup brush. Keep the door open. Fan brush is the best, I've found.

And then, yeah, you can eat it and just be super careful because it is worse than glitter. Like notoriously, because it sticks to anything it is on. You're so lucky as gentlemen, you know, big burly gentlemen such as yourselves. You're not fucking around with gold laugh in your day. Well, I don't plan to. Yeah, I don't plan to. No, it really is a hassle. It would be my advice would be not.

to bother. When can the listener and ourselves experience these crafts? Will you be tomorrow at the latest? Debuting them sometime in the next few days. And the whole time I've been crafting, I've had this thought that I know Shannon's had before and I know all women have. I should start a shop.

I should start a business. I do this every time I finish a crochet project. And I just focus on the last day and I'm like, I enjoyed making this. This was easy. This has been a harrowing experience so far. Yeah, no, but you'll get to the end and you'll be like, I can do this professionally. I'll do it again. How many people have asked to buy my butterfly cardigan

and I've thought about it and then remember it took me weeks and cost $200 worth of equipment. That's what people never put the value on the time. They just see how much, yeah, never mind the fact that it was ours and ours. Cake decorators are hearing us, by the way. Cake decorators are not about.

The thing is, the amount I've spent on cock-ups on this thing I'm making and replaced it and got the wrong colour and this, this, this, this, and new fringing that was shipped from China and then, la-l-l-la, literally have spent the most of ever spent on the. this thing. Right. Well, in one month, I can't wait to see it. I reckon one month is still being ambitious.