About Us

Ken and Malu Wood, founders and owners of Woodbox Creations

The idea originated in 1953 when Ken's parents presented him with a medallion that featured the family birthdays. When Ken and Malu were married they found that there was an extended family necessitating birthday anniversary records. Seizing upon the idea of the medallion they started their personal Birthday Board. They posted the Board in the kitchen. Friends added their names and the Board became a chronology of birthdays.

The Board was so popular that they started shipping to stores and individuals throughout the country. Today Birthday Boards can be found on walls in almost all states and several Canadian provinces. Family Ties was added more recently so that the Wood offspring would get to know the family lineage. It is a friendly way to show children who's who in their family - very popular, inexpensive gift.

Appearing on the backside is the following tongue-in-cheek version at the Birthday Board’s creation with style borrowed from King James, Gilbert and Sullivan:

The Birthday Board and Anniversary Calendar
or Necessity is The Mother of Invention

In the Beginning, a certain man and woman were united in wedlock in a small New England town, in the presence of God, friends and relatives. A plethora of relatives. Mostly his.

AND, VERILY, it was the expectation of the man, from that day forth forever more, that the woman would remember the birthdays and anniversaries of his sisters and his brothers and his cousins by the dozens and his aunts, with appropriate cards and inexpensive gifts.

AND IT CAME TO PASS that the man and the woman were blessed with children as were their friends and relatives who multiplied at an alarming rate. Now it happened that with so many to remember, a favorite aunt was forgotten on her natal day. And the woman was sorely vexed and the man feared greatly the wrath and indignation of the woman.

WHEREUPON, the man did create a calendar to show which peoples of which tribes had birthdays on which dates. And the woman did create and paint flowers thereon. And it was good.

NOW IN HIS WISDOM, the man caused the calendar to be reproduced and copyrighted. And in her wisdom, the woman caused the calendars to be sent at the times appointed to those whose names were inscribed thereon.
And it was better.

AND FOR AS MUCH AS other peoples coveted their neighbor's anniversary calendars, the man and the woman sent them unto many tribes, even unto foreign lands. And it was yet better.

AND IT WAS THUS that necessity begat invention which began a Cottage Industry. And taking unto themselves a stove and a wood box, the man and the woman and the children went to abide in a cottage and to provide Wood Box Anniversary Calendars for those who did covet them. And they lived happily ever after, even unto this day.

"Ringwood NJ ~ Friend has a calendar in her home. Loved it!"

"Warrenville, IL ~ We had one given to us by our children last Christmas"