Hi Alisha,
Frankly, I never used breadboard - its so unreliable, at some arbitrary levl of complexity , you don't know whether the board design is screwed, or one of the itsy bitsy sockets has gone a bit flaky. Sometimes.....

I have been able to get away with creating PCBs using a photocopier and acetates - if you can do it, the technique works right down to TQFP scale without problems.

There is a prototyping matrix board somewhere too that lets you work with SO packages.

It really isn't that hard. Scary with the smaller parts, but if you use solder paste and little hotair gun its almost magic, because the parts align themselves on the pads !

Steve