Change/tweak website design

Industry: Publishing/Journalism
Kind of design: Custom website
Description of every page: see notes
Ideas for the visual style: modern, interactive, appealing, creative
Website url: http://www.sabinekurz.com
Extra notes: I recently created a website (using Blogger with a custom domain) and need someone to make it look better and improve usability and design.
http://www.sabinekurz.com

I think it's not going to be a lot of work, just a few tweaks here and there.

The site's purpose is to provide an online profile/CV which I can link to from job applications. It needs to show my skills, my portfolio, some information about myself and blog posts.

I used this Blogger template: http://www.blogtipsntricks.com/2013/01/minimum-responsive-blogger-template.html and managed to change a few things, but my HTML skills are very basic.

What I would like:
A nice banner at the top that integrates with the menu
Remove the email me now widget
Add a picture and some text before the social media widget
Make the blog posts look clean and easier to read

I welcome any suggestions and ideas you may have to make this site look good. Especially some elements that make the website more interactive or professional looking.

If you are interested, please tell me what you would change or add, how long you will take and what you charge. There's no fixed deadline.

I'm a student so won't be able to pay as much as I would like to, but there might be future projects :)