The Perfect Pillow

I don't know about you, but it seems like I'm always on a quest for the perfect pillow.  When I was in 7th grade, I took an elective course in crafts.  One project was making a pillow.  Mine was orange fabric, and I embroidered a purple snail on the front of it  (don't ask my why, I don't remember! Unless it happened to be a pattern mom already had! lol)  

The pillow was about 18x18 square and to stuff it, I cut up a piece of foam that was on hand into little 1x1 cubes, or as close as I could get.  It sat on my bed for a few years.  When I was in high school, I took apart this crazy pillow I'd made, but I stuffed it into half a pillow case and sewed up the end and voila! I had this perfect pillow.  It wasn't too over stuffed, and it didn't go flat in the night.  Being only half sized, I could bunch it up under my head pretty much in any shape I needed it to be.  I'm a side sleeper, so my pillow roams an awful lot in the night from side to side!   

So here it is ..... like 40 years later ... and I'm STILL using this little half pillow.   It's been washed, dried and scrunched so many darn times!  I keep putting it aside and trying this pillow, that pillow, good for side sleeper pillows ... you name it, I've tried it.  But I always *ALWAYS* go back to this little pillow.  

However.  After 40 years, the foam has broken down and mushed up.  I finally decided I needed to do something.  So I bought a couple different pillows that felt sorta right, and on my next day off, I'm going to tear them apart and see if I can replicate my perfect pillow.  I have to --- this one is on its last legs!    Wish me luck here, cuz I'm going to need it!  I may be cutting foam into cubes this weekend.  lol