I didn’t plan to spend my life in estate paperwork. I started somewhere much smaller — designing paper: ten little grids, built late at night, just because I loved the way a well-set page looks. But paper leads places. The grids became records, the records became questions — who keeps this? who finds it? what happens to all of it on the worst day? — and the questions led me into wills, probate, handovers, and the whole quiet machinery a family is left to work alone. Sometimes I wonder if something was steering me here. I’ve stopped arguing with it.
The deeper I went, the more it mattered. The forms, the deadlines, the fee schedules, the way one missed notification can undo three careful months — I read the official sources until they made sense, and then I started writing them down so they’d make sense to the next person. That’s all these packs are: the map I couldn’t believe nobody had made.
Everything here, I taught myself —
the research, the typesetting,
this website included.
There’s no studio behind Lily & Ledger and no team — just one person, a growing family that deserves my best hours, and the stubborn belief that the worst weeks of someone’s life are exactly when the paperwork should be kindest. Every figure is checked against the official UK sources, and when the rules change, the packs change — that’s the promise the whole shop stands on.
— Lily