Welcome to As Told By! We’re Ashley and Shelby Dunn aka Ash and Shelbs. We’re sisters and we currently live in New York City but we were born and raised in Texas. Together we own As Told By, a lifestyle website focused on providing inspiration for your daily life while sharing a piece of ours.
Happy New Year! 2021 sure is off to an interesting start already! If the past 12 days are any indication, I think all hopes for a less eventful year are out the window. But that’s a topic for another time.…
You’re Never Too Old To Enjoy A Snow Day! We got a pretty big winter storm through the Northeast last week bringing around 10 inches of snow to the city. It’s been a few years since we’ve had any significant…
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights The holidays this year are very different. When we were brainstorming Covid safe things we could do this year, our friend Keslie suggested that we head out to Dyker Heights in Brooklyn to see the Christmas…
Holiday Activities In NYC! One of our NYC Christmas traditions is that we always go and visit the tree in Rockefeller Center! This year, we decided we would go ice skating too! We’ve been ice skating a few places in…
Hudson Yards & The Highline Ash and I decided that we really wanted to end this year on a good note. We were brainstorming so covid safe activities that we could do during the month of December, and Hudson Yards…
Last Minute Small Gift Ideas Can you believe it’s December? This year has felt a million years long but also like it’s flown by in the blink of an eye, you know? As we’re deep into the holiday season now,…
How We Celebrated Thanksgiving 2020 is definitely a different year. Because we are still in a global pandemic, we chose to do the right thing and stay put in New York. If y’all have been here for awhile you would…
Small Businesses Are Relying On You If you don’t own a small business, it may be hard to understand the gravity of the end of the fourth quarter. But this year especially, these next few weeks could make or break…
Shopping small has never been more important than it is this year. We wanted to put together a small business gift guide so you can easily shop small this holiday season! Being small business owners ourselves, we are very passionate…
It’s Time To Deck The Halls [one_half padding=”0 3px 0 0″][/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 0 0 3px”][/one_half_last] Confession time. We pulled out all of our holiday home decor and decorated on November 1st. Now, this is the earliest we have ever put…
So Many Cute Things At Target Recently Lately Target has been absolutely killing it with their clothes and shoes! That’s not always the case, but this season they have really stepped it up. They have also had a lot of…