Playing with new Blogger

I've been experimenting with the new blogger templates trying to make this a little more custom and separating out the sidebar sections.  I think it is looking pretty good and I like how much you can customize the templates especially the 3 column and split column that are already included.  I'd like to do something like this with The Little Bookworm but I can't with the new menu bar I just got. :(  Still pretty neat.