New blog look- back to the basics

I'm a bit tired of the cluttered look of the blog and decided to go back to the basics- get a basic blogger template and resist any temptation to change the code. As for the header pic, I opted for the collage look, designed with Google online tools.

For the record here's the old template:

And this blog still looks cluttered. Maybe those 'minimalist'-styled templated would work huh?