Websites are AWESOME!

I absolutely LOVE my new website! I feel as if I can express myself so much better! :)

Please go check it out because I would love some feedback on it and improvements.. I can take the criticism so please give me some.

Go to http://buttermoments101.yolasite.com/

Let it inspire you!

Today I was just sitting around wondering what to do. That's when it hit me! I'm going to take pictures! I let my love for photography/footage take control and took pictures of something that I love in my life. From Ed Hardy to Vera Bradley.

Detail! Detail! Detail! I absolutely love detail in pictures. The sharpness, vintage, bright to makes the photo so unique to look at. I've always been told that I have an eye for detail. (Ex. My mom would repaint our ceiling fan, and I would be the first one to notice it!)

I say if you have a love for photography, painting, drawing, dressing up... DO IT! It makes you happy and who you are! :)

Left & Top Right: Ed Hardy perfume, Vera Bradley key chain, Vogue glasses, and a Charlotte Rouse necklace

Middle Left: Love Pink perfume

Middle Right: my Vera Bradley collection (pink: key chain, black: glasses case, blue: accessory pouch and bag)

Bottom Right: Vera Bradley collection with my leopard stool

Let go of someone you love...

I'll say that if you love someone enough to let them go, your doing the right thing!

For me, I love this guy because he is my best friend. I did fall for him as well, but he fell for another girl. I always feel as if my luck could be changing but I never seem to find the "luck" i've been feeling. I truly believe that if you love someone, no matter what way it is, you have to let them go if it makes them happy. Because if it's meant to be then you will end up together or the other one will realize that they want you because of what you did for them.

I feel like either way I won because I still have him as a friend and I know I did the right thing.

Starting of a new me.

So first off my name is Ashley Butler and I am a college student who is trying to figure out the concept of living on her own. My first semester I tried to work on finding friends more than my education. That was my first mistake! Then I got into the wrong group of friends, I went to parties (didn't drink-- well at first), hung out all the time with them and soon enough I became a drinker. Did I care? Of course not! I fit in, felt confident, and just simply important. I mean who doesn't want to feel like that? Soon after I started drinking I got caught in my dorm by my RA. Yes, stupid of me to come back here but I didn't know what I was thinking at the time. It doesn't matter about the popularity, the as called "fun" they were having, or how important I was-- really all the matters is that you find the place that makes you happy but in a setting that you KNOW 100% that you are safe. Don't make the mistake that I made, not about coming back to your dorm, house, apartment, etc.--Don't make the mistake of falling into peer pressure of something you stand strong for. I sure didn't think I would start drinking but look what happened.

I stopped, yes, because I got caught but I think it was God's blessing that I did. It was the Lord telling me this is a warning. Looking back I'm not sure why I didn't and I don't think I regret it either, mainly because it made me stronger in the long run.

Christmas Break...

I guess I was to say first off that my Christmas Break was more than exciting, it was exhilarating! I got to go home for a month to see my family, friends, and hometown. I had great things and disappointing things that happened to me while I was at home. From best friends "ditching" me to best friends making my day! My family to me is the best well put together family I could have ever asked for... Being a daddy's girl, mom taking me shopping, and having my brother as a role model for me. I'm not sure what I would do without my brother to be honest. I'm saying this because I want God to know that I am thanking him and to reinforce myself that I don't have it that bad. Even though I think my life is nothing most the time I know that deep down it is a great thing to have.

Now you're probably wondering what happened to me over break about my best friend who ditched me. Well she technically didn't ditch me, she just didn't tell me she couldn't come over. My best friend, Stephanie, and her boyfriend, Reid, came over to my house to wait on my other best friend from ACU to arrive at my house. About 30 minutes goes by and still no sign of her. Finally I call her about 15 times that day, and still no answer. My mind just went to the automatic worse thing that could ever happen, she got into a car wreck. Well she finally texted me on Sunday to let me know that she was incredibly sorry and told me that her sister went to the hospital that night and she didn't want to talk to anyone else.

That being the long story short, I have realized that your true friend wouldn't just blow you off even for that reason. For me, I felt like she should have at least told me the next day...

Just know, life goes on but most importantly find the right friends that you are the happiest with.