Need your opinions

I would like to re-do my blog... and I can't pay for someone to re-do it again. SOOO... I have tried to make my own. Which do you prefer? What I already have on my blog? Or this one:

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This one is just more streamlined and less busy I guess. It is just more simple. Plus... this new blog design has a wider main posting area so the pictures I do/will post will be larger and easier to see. 

So what do you all think? Which do you prefer?

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