Featured Items disappeared after changing and deleting variations.

[sweetfacebakery]

I had my site set up and published, orders were coming through. But I noticed on every item ordered there was a "variation" set that I had not set up. For instance a pumpkin pie was ordered and underneath it said "variation: pecan pie". I checked another order of a different item and the variation was the same "variation: pecan pie". I did not set this up and with the last holiday site did not have variations with the items. So I went and checked all items and the variation for every featured item was the same. I tried to delete the variation option but a pop-up said I had to have a variation in order to continue to sell online. So I went through every featured item and edited to change the variation to "pre-order" so as to not confuse customers who ordered something that said they were getting a variation of what they did not order. As I did this, I also deleted the "pecan pie" variation. I went through every item and did this and then clicked publish to save the changes and update the site. When I went back to check, all of the featured items were gone. Nothing was available. So then I went to edit my site and add back the featured items and it will not allow me to add anything. I click on the blue icon to select items and nothing happens.