I need a blog makeover

I see all kinds of neat blogs but I'm afraid to do anything other than use the templates that Blogger has.  How hard is it to do all of that stuff?  I guess that I need to know html.  Heck....I can't even remember my name half of the time.  How will I remember all that html stuff?  Some of the digital scrapbooking stores have blog packages for sale but I read some of the instructions and got really, really confused.

I did add a new photo at the top...and changed my titles to a pretty pink.  That might do me for a while...until I go looking at those other great looking blogs. 

Think that I'll go and bead.  My sisters bd is next week and I want to make one of those wrap bracelets that everyone is wearing.  I saw an actress on Criminal Minds on Wed. wearing one even.  Here's one version from this blog.  Actually...there are two in the photo...one using ball chain and the other using strands of rhinestones.

And here's the other one: