Shelby Skrhak

Shelby Skrhak is executive editor of CandysDirt.com and producer of the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.

At The Corner of Airline and Greenbrier: The Perfect Location for This Former Airline Exec’s Home

By Shelby Skrhak / November 13, 2022 /

It’s appropriate that this three-story French traditional home is located along Airline Road, just north of Southwestern in University Park. Its owner launched an eponymous airline with his titan father in the ’80s, and in the early ’90s, having sold it, selected this quarter-acre corner lot to custom build his dream home on Greenbrier Drive.…

5 More Things to Buy at H-E-B Now Open in Plano and P.S. The Lines Aren’t Bad

By Shelby Skrhak / November 3, 2022 /

I was practically heartbroken when I realized that I got the date for H-E-B Plano’s ribbon cutting wrong. I read November 2nd in the first paragraph and went my merry way thinking that was the ribbon cutting and dreaming of skipping through the aisles of H-E-B Plano — my H-E-B. But the store opened yesterday…

A Hundred Years Ago East Dallas’ Parks Estates Was Ahead of Its Time

By Shelby Skrhak / October 28, 2022 /

This week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, takes us to the East Dallas neighborhood of Parks Estates and takes us back about 100 years. On Thanksgiving Day 1924, eager sales agents paced the freshly paved streets of Tremont and Largent in East Dallas’s newest residential addition, Parks Estates. The addition…

Former Radio City Dancer and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Olivia Sharber Joins @Properties Christie’s

By Shelby Skrhak / October 25, 2022 /

If she looks familiar, that’s because you saw her high kick across the screen several years ago and onto a coveted spot with the most elite cheerleading squad in the NFL. Olivia Sharber‘s solo on the CMT original series “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team” helped win the judges over and showed this girl was…

How to Have Fall Pumpkin Displays That’ll Make Your Neighbors Jealous

By Shelby Skrhak / October 25, 2022 /

Drive the manicured streets of Park Cities, Preston Hollow, or Lake Highlands in October and November and you’ll notice a popular design trend —a dazzling fall display that’ll really make your porch pop. Here you’ll see pumpkins of all colors — bright orange, burnt orange, crisp white, or unique green. Whether you want your gourds with…