On Tuesday we started to outline our idea for the legs of the bench. We came up with a few different ones but none that really made us want to do them. We thought about polka dots, swirls, all different fun crazy designs. We didn't pick any of these. We decided to do something that doesn't require drawing it out first, its all freehand. After we came up with this we went over all the writing again in black or white so that it stuck out more. When we were finished with this we brainstormed ways to do what we wanted to on the legs so that we could start tomorrow!

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