My Weekend In Photos – NZPC Hardpark Wellington 2012

Over the weekend NZPC and STM held the 2012 Wellington Hardpark. It was a great event with some really gorgeous cars! But for me the best part about Hardpark coming to Wellington meant that my good friends Pedey who is the editor of NZPC Magazine, and his fiancé Taryn who is the owner of world renowned blog www.iheartstance.com got to stay with us for the weekend :)

I had such a great weekend, I thought I would share it with you in photos!

These 2 photos above are Taryns. This is her new project car – Datsun 280z. To check out her latest post about it CLICK HERE

Saturday night we headed out for dinner and a night on the town :)

To check out my other “My Weekend In Photos” post, CLICK HERE

Blue Tip Nails

Recently I popped down to Diamond Nails to get a much needed pamper, and decided it was time for a totally new set. Original I wanted to get black tips, but when I saw the blue ones I new I had to have them! :)

They look great and in some light they turn a purple colour!

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Photo Booth iPhone 4 App

The other week I went to town with a few of the girls to have a few drinks! As you do when you’ve had a bit to drink we took some photos and one of the girls had this awesome photo booth app on her iPhone 4! I liked it so much I thought I would share it with all of you :)

It’s called IncrediBooth and works on both iPhone 4 and iPad2. Here is how it works and a few of the photos we took :)

From here you can save them so you can email them, pxt them or upload them to Facebook or Twitter :)

iPad

I have had my iPad for a few weeks now and it really is an amazing piece of technology! Although I have definetly found that it is a piece of technology that you don’t really need until you actually own it and wonder how you ever used to live life without it!

Here are a few photos of it and a few awesomely cool apps I have found for it. The only downside I have found with the app store for the iPad is that a lot of the apps that you can get for the iPhone are not available for the iPad.

It really is a very good looking device!

The cover for the iPad 2 is a great accessory! It is so multi purpose! :)

The Garage Band app is one of my favorite! It is so easy to use and you can play all sorts for different types of instruments. You can even sing into it and it will record you :) I can often be a bit tight about spending money on apps but this one was totally worth the $6.49! haha.

Ok so this game really is a bit of a guilty pleasure! It is called Bloons TD4 HD! It is so simple but so fun! The aim of the game is to place super monkeys around the track to blow up the balloons before they reach the end of the track! … P.S. This is also an app you can get for your iPhone :)

This last app probably could be used for really useful things but I like to use it to do silly drawings! hehe :)

This is a drawing of Ben sitting on the toilet and using his iPad at the same time! Haha. Sometimes he gets so caught up in playing on his iPad he forgets he is actually still on the toilet!

Haha this is Ben and I going to the supermarket and me being pushed round in the trolley because 1) i HATE going to the supermarket. And 2) i am rather good at being a lazy bitch :) (I feel i did a good job of depicting Ben‘s hair colour) :)

Jay-Z Decoded: The Book

Two weeks ago I bought a book! For those of you that know me it’s a pretty big deal as I’m not much of a reader! :)   I was at Wellington airport looking round Whitcoulls waiting for my flight to Auckland and stumbled upon Jay-Z’s book “Decoded”. I didn’t know he had written a book, so the minute I saw it I knew I had to have it. I have always been a pretty big fan of Jay-Z and was really looking forward to reading it to find out more about his life and rise to fame.

I have always been quite interested in autobiography’s by musicians, as an aspiring musician myself I am always wanting to learn the stories of how some of the worlds most famous singers and rappers got to where they are today. Having read a few musician’s autobiography’s such as “Scar Tissue” by Anthony Kiedis who is the lead singing of The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. I find the repetition of being on drugs and getting clean multiple times throughout the book gets a bit boring after a while, but Jay-Z’s book really is like no other. It contains a collection of his lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of his life, but also of a culture that many of us have never seen or experienced. The book gives a in-depth look into the life of one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.

This is one book I would really recommend reading. It has inspired me as a musician but also as someone who just wants to be successful in life.

Here are a few photos from inside the book. It’s defiantly not your conventional autobiography as you can see! :)

Check out this video from Jay-Z talking about the evolution of his style. Its very interesting :)

Boat Trip

Ben and I spent the weekend in Auckland and were lucky enough to get to go out on my parents boat on Sunday. Amazingly the weather was actually really good! We had a great day and was super relaxing!

Mum also made a delicious 3 course lunch!!It was amazing, as her cooking always it! :)

Ben even got to steer the boat! He did really good and didn’t crash it! haha