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.
When visiting Iceland, a stop at the Blue Lagoon cannot be missed. Sure, it’s touristy, and most locals will tell you it’s highly overrated, but in our opinion it’s still worth checking out. The Blue Lagoon was our favorite thing…
I’m one of those people that loves winter and hates summer weather, but sometimes I just get to this point where I’m so tired of putting ten layers on every time I want to run to Starbucks. We are going…
The latest neighborhood we are exploring in New York is Gramercy! Gramercy can feel like a secluded, private neighborhood, even though it’s located in central Manhattan. With few tourist attractions, the neighborhood is filled with residents looking for a place to…
Planning a vacation can be really daunting for some people. We get it, if it’s not your forte you could be dreading using those vacation days. Don’t worry, today we are sharing the 6 steps to plan your perfect vacation.…
Just before Christmas, we visited Montreal, Canada. We happened to arrive just as temperatures plummeted across all of North America due to a polar vortex. On our first day there, we woke up to a temperature of -11 degrees Fahrenheit.…
A lot of people are scared to travel to New York because they think it is too expensive. To be honest with you, if you don’t know what your doing it can be! So today, we are here to…
Ok, so maybe this post title was inspired by all of the Game of Thrones we’ve been watching lately. We’re in the middle of season four, but are trying to get all caught up before the new season starts in…
Hey y’all! Happy Monday! We hope you enjoyed your holidays, and are having a fantastic New Year. We took a couple weeks off from blogging to celebrate with our families and recharge our minds, but we are back and better…
As Ashley told you in our travel diary, we ate a lot in Montreal. We had heard great things about the food, but it was also an excuse to get out of the freezing cold weather. We stayed in a…
Shelby and I made a quick trip to Montreal last weekend. Neither of us had ever been to Montreal before, and in fact, it was our first time to Canada. So now we get to check another country off our…
The weather is finally starting to move towards winter, and it makes us so happy. This in between of fall and winter is the perfect time to play around with your style. It’s not so cold that you have to…