Hello,
I have experience with wordpress since its my first aria of expertise. I will be able to create you a sweet catchy blog theme, i already have some ideas. I usually create new wordpress themes based on a responsive blank theme so you are going to have a resposnive blog. I will also create some content shortcodes based on font-awsome so you can write lists and all king of highlighting messages using different colors and custom icons. (ill provide a mega tuturial for them - very easy to use anyways). And since we talk about wordpress everything that takes to make the blog ready for production like: server optimization, caching, seo comes free!
Best Regards!