Ash and Shelbs

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.

Posts by this author:

Apple Picking | Harvest Moon Farms

Hey y’all! Happy Monday! We had a fantastic weekend of apple picking and singing our hearts out with Adele at Madison Square Garden. It was the perfect concert, so look out for a video on Wednesday on our YouTube channel!…

Share:

NYC Neighborhood Guide | Midtown East

The next neighborhood we are exploring is Midtown East! You can see our past neighborhood guides here. Midtown East runs from 59th Street to 42nd Street and Fifth Ave to the FDR. This is one of those neighborhoods that has…

Share:

Bluestone Lane Cafe

If you follow us on social media, you would know that we are obsessed with a place called Bluestone Lane. It is an Australian run coffee shop and cafe. There are 3 cafe’s in NYC, and 5 coffee shops. They…

Share:

Sister Style | Crisp Morning Air

The morning air has turned crisp, the leaves are starting to change, and all things pumpkin spice flavored have hit the grocery store shelves. We say it all the time, but fall is our favorite time of year! Shelby will…

Share:

7 Must Eats In New York City

Ashley and I get asked all the time for restaurant recommendations here in the city. Last week we wrote a guest post over on Helene In Between of the must try brunch places in the city. So, today we thought…

Share:

13 Best Loafers For Fall

The weather is starting to turn crisp in New York (in the mornings and evenings at least) and I am itching to break out my fall wardrobe! I really want to be a loafer person, and year after year I…

Share:

5 Tips For Traveling Often

Hey y’all! So Ash and I often get asked how we are able to travel so frequently during the year. We are very fortunate that we can, but we have it down to a science so we can travel often,…

Share:

Cold Brew Coffee Round Up

If you follow us on Snapchat then you probably are already aware that we have a cold brew coffee obsession. If a coffee shop has cold brew coffee on the menu, there is a 95% chance that’s what I’m ordering,…

Share:

Tortilla Flats | Tex-Mex

Ash and I are Tex-Mex obsessed. We pretty much picked the worst place to live to get great Mexican food. With the exception of about 3 restaurants, New York does not have overwhelmingly great Mexican food options. We have told…

Share:

August Favorites

If you live in the United States, happy Labor Day, and if you live elsewhere, happy Monday! We got the benefits of the hurricane (i.e. a nice breeze) without having to deal with rain/flooding, which gave us a pretty glorious…

Share:

Sheet Mask Round-Up

Hey y’all! Whew, we made it to Friday thank goodness. So, Ash and I have started doing face mask monday, which we totally think that y’all should participate in by the way, so we wanted to give you a little…

Share:

Looking for Something?