Facelift, part 2

Today during another bout of "productive procrastination," I decided to try a bolder take on my blog's masthead (in addition to shading to the sidebar and changing column widths).

Before:

Tangle-masthead

 

After (just look up!):

2013-masthead

 

Any thoughts? Feedback? Gut reactions?

I'm still trying to figure out how to introduce images of my jewelry to my blog as a rotating sidebar... anyone know? This could mean joining Flickr or some other image thing I'm not so up on... suggestions welcome!