Paula
Blankenship inherited her mother’s eye for DIY furniture.
Paula Blankenship, the 63-year-old founder of Heirloom Traditions Paint and
author of the forthcoming memoir Just Open the Jar: A DIY Path to
Creating a Life You Love, comes from a family of entrepreneurs.
She grew up in Oneida, Tennessee, watching her parents run a retail business. Blankenship was interested in doing the same. She didn’t graduate from high school; at 16, her mother helped her open her first shop selling clothes. After that, she and her sister opened a retail store selling floor covering, paint and other items






