Decisions and Changes and Pass Me an Aspirin.... I Have a Headache From Thinking Too Hard....

Well I've got some changes to think about. About a year ago I joined quite a few affiliate programs.... you can see their links and banners over on my side bar.... or on my web site A Lil Enchanted. I was desperate to find a way to earn money working from home because we were struggling just to buy food. I put 100's of hours into building my web site and keeping it updated and even more trying to advertise my site and get some sales. The first year of my web site was free... but as of October 28 (which also happens to be my birthday).... I will have to pay $15 for the site and another $15 for my domain. Not really a bad price at all..... I was hoping the business would at least earn enough to pay for this come renewal time.... but it hasn't. I also have a mirror site which is free on Free Webs.... I started my site there then moved it to Microsoft Office Live.... I never took down the Free Webs site 'just in case'. So now I have to decide whether or not to pay to keep the site up and running. I have had one sale from it and earned a whopping $2.... so it's not doing well at all.... but I also put a huge amount of time into building it..... so just losing all of the work I did on it leaves me feeling at a loss. Of course I could keep the free mirror site.... but to be successful in a web biz I really need to have my own domain.... then again I could keep the domain and use it for my blog. This is really a bad time for this to come due.... we're broke from all of the birthdays.... I made an accounting mistake which cost me $70 in bank fees.... and my car tag has to be renewed by the 28th as well..... so money is very tight right now. So my options are:

A) Pay the $30 to keep the site and domain and hope that it does better this year.... www.alilenchanted.com ... that is if I can scrape up the $30 by the 28th.

B) Pay the $15 to keep the domain and use it for my free mirror site on Free Webs (which has limited features, ads, and a few other issues) http://www.freewebs.com/enchantingtreasures/

C) Keep the domain for $15 and use it for my blog

D) Let the domain and web site go and just keep the free mirror site and hope to drive traffic there and generate sales from my blog.

E) Forget the whole thing and just drop both sites

Now admittedly I haven't done much to promote my site since I started my blog because I've just been enjoying the blog world... even though I started the blog to help promote my site. And I haven't been keeping my site updated since then either.... I've put all of my online time into my blog.... so both sites need updating at this point.

Also... whatever I decide I will still be here blogging my lil heart out.... but I'll have to find time to work on the business should I decide to keep it. And also should I decide to keep it I would like to change my blog layout and have a small column on each side with a posting section in the middle.... I would put my business links etc in one column and my blog related links etc in the other. I don't know how to get 3 columns on this blog... I don't see any 3 column templates on blogger. So where do I find those??? I've seen many other Blogger blogs with 3 columns.... where did they get them??? I can't afford to pay someone to design a layout for me (remember I tried to win one... but I didn't get it).

So I'm asking for opinions.... and advice on the business issue. And I'm asking where to find a free 3 column layout for this blog.

A Lil Enchanted,
~LaShan~