Marianne: Where have I been?

I know. My posting went from sporadic, random, but at least twice a week, to pretty much nothing. But I've been busy doing this:

And this:

And a lot, lot, lot of this:

Here is where I would make a crack about being horrified by that picture and not believing that I've put a picture of myself in a bathingsuit on the internet, if I did that sort of thing. Ahem. Instead, here is someone who is very confident in how she looks in a bathingsuit:

P.S. Top bathingsuit is an old one from J. Crew, bottom bathingsuit is the wonderful Jantzen Vamp. Sarong is from Hawaii. Lu's bathingsuit is also Jantzen.