Blog Templates

So I commited to myself to post in my blog a lot more often but I find myself online searching fruitlessly for a new blog template. If you have visted before you can see that I did update with a new tamplate but it just isn't screaming me for some reason. Now I am spending hours on end searching for just the template. I have even been learning some CSS so that I can possibly write my own code. In the last week I have learned enough that I can creat my own template but then I am going to be spending hours and hours creating the graphics. Something is telling me to give up or I will never get an posts done in my blog. What's the purpose of a blog if all I am doing is spending time making it look all pretty.