Designing this blog

I follow several blogs, and have recently really gotten into the whole blogging thing. I see so many cool and creatively designed blogs and am trying to figure out how they do it! The designs are cute and they have a lot of widgets (I think that's what they are called) linking to other blogs and other miscellaneous items. Then I go and look at mine...I have a lot of work to do! It'll get spiffy'd up soon, I promise. Once this weekend is over, I'll have more time to tackle my "to-do" list which seems to be accumulating A LOT of items! Ok. that's all I have time for now, but I also promise to keep up blogging and to blog more often!