Hollie & Harrie Sombrilla giveaway!
1st February, 2011
Genius new 'Sombrillas' by new Melbourne company Hollie & Harrie
How good are these new 'Sombrilla' sunshades from Melbourne start-up Hollie & Harrie!?
The Sombrilla was a 'lightbulb moment' for Hampton-based Mums Skye Hollingsworth and Claire Harris (Hollie & Harrie, get it?), who, with 5 young kids between them, were looking for an effective but stylish way to keep their families protected on the beach in summer. The Sombrilla is such an elegantly simple solution! Made from 100% cotton fabric (nothing plasticky thankyou very much!), it can be adjusted throughout the day as the sun moves across the beach / backyard / campsite/ wherever you happen to be... ! They're available in three vibrant designs as shown here, each with a corresponding carry-bag, and are priced at $150.00 each - extremely reasonable for such a fanastic locally designed product!
Claire and Skye are very excited to offer one lucky Design Files reader a Sombrilla of their choice! If this week is anything to go by, we still have a fair few hot days ahead of us... so get commenting for your chance to be in the running!
To enter, please leave a comment on this post before midnight tonight Tuesday Feb 1st, Melbourne time! A winner will be drawn at random and contacted by email tomorrow. (Competition open to Australian residents only). If you subscribe to these posts by email, please don't reply to your daily email, just pop over to thedesignfiles.net to enter.
HUGE thanks to Claire and Skye for this fabulous summery giveaway! Don't forget to show your support to these clever local ladies by visiting their website - Sombrillas can also be purchased online here.
*UPDATE - This giveaway is now closed! The winning commenter was #497 - congratulations Edwina! Thanks so much for all your entries!
Absolutely gorgeous! I’de be very happy sitting under one on Bronte beach. x
What a great idea! I would love to use one of these for my family. Thanks for chance to be in to win.
These look great – I wish I had had the idea!, so would be most happy to have one x
These are beautiful!! I would LOVE to win one!
Simple, stylish and practical – what a great design!!!
Brilliant idea, beautiful product. Count me in pretty please!
What a groovy concept! Perfect beach buddy!
How bright and beautiful!
Stylish and sensible! Love it. Perfect for a sun sensitive pom in oz like me!
mmmmm the red and white striped one is my favourite! Lovely idea and thankyou for the chance to own one! x
Great name, great design, so pretty AND healthy! A truly wonderful product. Love it!
So stylish and chic – I love the blue design… and what a great excuse to get back down to the beach!
I love these!!!!
major swoon…. oh yes please!
oooh, what a brilliant idea. amazing how the simplest ideas are the best. (and look sensational too)
Great design and beautiful fabrics!
This is very IN !
Great idea and lots of room for the kids
oooh yes please …. essential shade for my little bub
Gah! Brilliant! Count me in please xx
I love that two local mums have had an idea and then had the motivation and tenacity to follow it through to production. My hat’s off to them (pun intended!).
Very cute…. Love them!!! Yes please!
Genius!
I burn just looking at the weather forecast! Would love the chance to be counted!
Ooh when the sun pops up it’s time to play
little and big get out enjoy the day
but be sure when you holding that sweet bucket and spade
sit yourself under a fantastical shade
Perfect for my return to sunny Australia!
yes please
Awesome!
It’s about time we saw the end of the silly little pop up tent on the beach. Think of those days, light breeze, 28 degree’s, swell and lemonade!! Yes please…..!!
really gorgeous. im sure i need one.thank you
Colourful and stylish – what more could you wish for. I would definitely love one!!
Just gorgeous and not at all claustrophobic like some other beach shades…pick me! :)
The perfect accessory for summer! I could live down at the beach if I had one of these! How fun!
Stunning! I didn’t need another excuse to go to the beach, but think I just found one!
My old lizard skin needs one of these!
Stylish and practical :)
These are beautiful! would love one please!!
This is something I could have done with last weekend!
Lovely – especially the bright “Beach Yellow!”
Wow love them – I think it’s time I change from my current Lion King beach umbrella (that always end up embarrassingly chasing down the beach in a mild wind) to one of this fab shades.
What an awesome idea! And SO stylish. Congrats ladies.
great new idea – look out for me at the beach under one
Wow… Love the colours :) We so need one of those, they are excellent!!
Yes please! Perfect.
simple, clever and beautiful – fantastic design. Paula x
Ooh la la, or as the French would say “oh là là”! What a fabulous beach prop! Perfect for our magnificent Australian beaches.
so smart…sun smart…super smart….I love it!
Gorgeous new must-have for summer
These pop – I’ll love summer even more with one on board.
Yes please, they look wonderful. I heart the yellow one. So beautiful.
I have two teenagers who would rather roast than sit under a beach umbrella! So not cool apparently! But that Sombrila – they will under that in a flash!
OMG how cool!
clever girls! makes a day at the beach more comfy and stylish!!
Love these! So much better than those horrible beach tents and its designed Aussie mums too.
Double yay!
At age 38, my husband just had his first (and hopefully last) melanoma removed. We don’t want to give up going to the beach but we need to be more careful in the hot Aussie sun. What a great solution, and enough shade for 2!
Sitting under one of these would make a trip to the beach even more fun than it already is…
ooh I eyed off a sombrilla style shelter at the beach only a few weeks ago. they perform fantastically. Lots of shade, lots of air and they don’t disrupt yours and others view of the water.
Interior design eye candy! Love the simple design and bright fabric choice. Well done clever mummys, they look good enough to eat
So beautiful! Would love one!
Wonderful idea, simply executed ….Well done!
Fabulous ideas!
gorgeous! So colourful, love them!
What a great alternative to the stupid beach tent that I can never fold up!
I’d love to win and brighten up Henley Beach in Adelaide!!!! Awesome Australian product and all three colours scream summer fun!!!
magic happens!
Yay to no more sunburn
Oh how we do love these!! Great idea for us moon tans…love love love them
Neat! Simple and perfect. I am trying to imagine summer in Chicago.
It’s my birthday tomorrow. Can I have one please?
oh my, they are awesome
How gorgeous!! No more umbrellas flying down the beach!
Reminds me of a flying carpet, only brighter, perfect for the harsh Australian sun.
Fantastic!
Please pick me for the prize!
love the colours :)
Oooh, gorgeous! I’d love to win one. Just right for Adelaide’s heat wave – I want to go to the beach!
I saw a very daggy tarpaulin version of these on the beach over summer – wouldn’t one like this be gorgeous?!
Adelaide is having a heatwave….would love to win one of these!
Would love love love to sit under one of these on the beach this summer!
Love them… my oldies had one just like it in the early 80’s – army green and cream strip canvas – when i was a wee tot and they are so practical! Fun times.
GUSH!! So bubbly and bright. Let the sun shine on.. =)
Really pretty and bright. Perfect for summer.
These are perfect. I particularly like the fact that they can be set up so as not to block the view of the beach. Nothing worse than those boring synthetic igloos plonked right down on the shore, stopping us from watching our kids…..and the water! Well done H & H.
Wow, they are so beautiful!
Much nicer than my cheapo beach umbrella!
As I was swallowed by a sea of families at the beach on Sunday, watching everyone have trouble putting up their boring blue tents – I thought that there must be an easier, more sophisticated way! Thank goodness for Hollie & Harry – fantastic concept! I hope that your Sombrillas become the majority on the sands.
Fun fab colours!!! Perfect!
What a brilliant idea! I love them!!
I’m loving these! As a gal with the palest of pale skin these are a must for the beach. I too struggled at the beach on Sunday with a beach umbrella that was just too small and no where near as gorgeous as these. Am loving the patterns and wish I could be under one and at the beach pronto!
I love these stylish shade solutions!! Perfect for the fair skinned of us out there!
So cute and smart!
Amazing giveaway! These are so beautiful and useful.
Funky & sun safe! Great timing for our family…with these hot days it meanns we can spend a day at the beach with our 4 month old!!
What gorgeous, cheerful colours and patterns!
Very,very cool.
What funky sun shades!! These are perfect for the beach!
Another awesome giveaway. Will definitely be purchasing if I miss out on the giveaway!
Stunning! just in time for a summer heatwave in melbourne…
This would be great from preventing sunburn!!…….again! (hehehe)
These are amazing! So glad someone’s come up with a fresh alternative to the beach brolly. These are genius! x
Excellent – the shade that is a shade from the sun and does not look like a claustrophobic tent for camping. Very stylish and practical. Hmm which colour shall I have?
Very stylish accessory for the beach!!
Gorgeous!!!!
I love these!! I just discovered their website a couple of weeks ago – beautiful
Love Love Love. Perfect for my little one for our daily afternoons at Bondi
Gorgeous sun shades. I hope I win!
Exactly what I’m looking for! Beautiful fabrics, colors and design. love it.
Wow, how stylish just love it, just perfect for me to hide my pale skin under so I can keep enjoying those balmy sunny weekends.
looks shady to me… perfect to take beach
fabulous design. well done girls!! x
So stylish, but simple. So jealous of people that come up with such brilliant ideas! :0)
Wow, as always, cool discovery Lucy. Love the colours, and the concept is great. No more embarrassing moments battling a beach tent back into its bag…?
Finally something nice to sit beneath at the beach!!
Oo love the name, love the product. With the heat at the moment this would be perfect for an afternoon siesta on the sand!
i LOVE these – such a beautiful alternative to the unattractive (yet very sensible) “sun-shelter”!
such amazing patterns! what a simple and wonderful idea~
Moroccan Blue, Beach Yellow, French Stripe…. love them all!
Pretty, practical and private. Now this is good design.
How do you choose which one when they are all great designs?
Haven’t seen anything like this before and really believe that this will be the start of more people choosing to be sun smart…
Would love to take this to The Prom for a Camping trip to show everyone!
Love the fresh and vibrant colours. Don’t mind sporting the new style with any of them on the beach:)
Swoon! That yellow one is divine… but really, it could like anything, this is the most functional beach accessory there ever was!
Just what this pasty, freckle pot of a beach lovin’ Aussie girl needs!!
simply fab *-*
great fabrics!!
What a fabulous concept! The colours are delightful and I love that you can adjust the shade to suit and move it with the sun. Also that it is aerated, unlike those stifling beach tents. Well done! Love it!
Gorgeous idea, beautifully executed!
i really like the colours, patterns and design… looks perfect to protect my fair skin from the strong summers sun!
I was at the beach on Sunday..trying to shelter from the sun, when I was whacked in the head with my not-so-useful umbrella..I would just LOVE one of these Sombrillas..not only to protect my skin, but also my head!! :)
Such a genius idea. Would love one of these!
Oh my.. these are just gorgeous!
Amazing mums, doing amazing things
This would have been perfect for Australia Day – I spent the whole day on the beach following the shade of a tiny beach umbrella! Yes please!
What a brilliant idea!!
What a great idea – and love the colours
I will be showing mine off (if I win one) at Main beach in Byron Bay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These are so groovy – love the colours and the designs are very funky. I haven’t seen one of these on the beach in Byron yet!!!!
What a fab idea – and great fabrics too! I want to be wherever those photo’s were taken right now!!
A very elegant way to enjoy the beach!
So beautiful, so stylish, so cool! You clever girls!
Amazing – much better than a traditional umbrella. What about an adjustable 1m high wall 3m long for the windy days on the beach – co-ordinating fabric!!!! I could see it.
How strikingly cool, sunny & versatile for aussie beach days, love them & well done ladies! Innovative & Perfect for hot days on gorgeous Manly beach with all my friends & family.
It’s about time that the humble beach hut had a facelift! Sombrillas are sure to be a summer sizzler!
I love these gorgeous bright sombrillas, how clever. Would make you look super cool in the shade!
This is so ingenious!!! Gorgeous prints, and a beautifully thought out design!
Just gorgeous!
gorgeous yet simple design, I love the Moroccan Blue one!
It beats the Umbrella that always seems to get blown away or fall over and far more stylish. Love love love!
so cute! yes please, I’d love one (especially because I’m a red head a very prone to burning in the sun)
love, love, LOVE!!!! yes please, feel free to send me one those ASAP :)
Lovely colours and pattern, yay! Vamos a la playa!
yes please, the perfect way to keep the peeps out of the sun at Killarney beach this summer.
Ooooh, sleek shade. Yes please.
Oh I LOVE this idea! So simple and stylish, I’m surprised at how much shade it actually creates!
I would love love love one. :D
Would love to take one of those on our next beach trip. My pasty skinned family need all the shade we can get!
I so want one! How cute!
This is one of those ideas that’s so fantastic you wonder why its not been done before.
Very nicely executed.
LOVE – BEAUTIFUL – SMART – SEXY – COOL
So much better than the little umbrella that kept falling over on my sister on I at the beach on Sunday. One of these would be perfect! SO STYLISH!
they are sooo cool…
Awesome, perfect for summer!!!
This is what I call a smart idea, how to make practicality and style meet around a simple idea.
Well done guys, I’ve been waiting for one of those for so long!
What a fantastic idea….and absolutely stunning looking.
Perfect for my super white Irish skin!
Finally, a better solution than those nasty nylon tents! What a breath of fresh air.
Congrats on such a great concept, they will be very popular indeed x
brilliant idea. i love the design.
Very stylish, love them!
I was just down the coast this last weekend and saw a family with one of these, nd commented on how cool it was. So yes, I’d love one ;-)
Totally fabulous – a perfectly breezy solution!
Amazing! I’m off to the beach this weekend so a win would be very timely!
Our days at the beach would be even more perfect as we could stay & play all day!! x
oh I need one!
they are uber cool
and I’m lily white
Wow! How awesome. Would love to win one and would also love to be at the beach today as it’s soo hot!
Style and functionality, simple patterns and primary pallet – the perfect combo!
Absolutely gorgeous. I just love your designs. I am at the beach all the time and would use a Sombrilla all the time!!
LOVE! Yes please!
Simply Divine! Beautiful and functional at the same time -xx-
excellent idea and so affordable too!
oooh…. i was eyeing off similar shade-makers at the beach this past weekend – loving the sun smart meets totally gorgeous vibe!
these look fantasic – I’d love to win one!!
Shade-tastic!!
Fingers crossed! These are lovely!
Great design. looking forward to seeing more products from these clever ladies!
Wow I LOVE these. Perfect for the current hot summer weather!
YUP! Can certainly see myself under one of these! Simply STUNNING!!!!
Love the colours and the simple design!
I’m in love! Stunning and practical.
Ohh La la amazing design and style, I suffer from Hyper – pigmentation and am quite fair for a European chicka.
Ohh La la amazing design and style, I suffer from Hyper – pigmentation and am quite fair for a European chicka…Id love to have this in my Back yard or at the beach…
Ohh these are fantastic!
so simple and stylish, fantastic idea!
yes. love. want. need. please.
Gorgeous! What treat for a giveaway Lucy.
Beachy times ahead!
Perfect for the Australian weather! What a beautiful idea…count me in! x
They are awesome, love the vibrant colours.
i want to go to the beach just to pop one of these up!!!!
From the back beach at Portsea to Whale beach and beyond….perfect
What a stylish way to keep the sun off. I could use one of them.
These are so stylin’. Much better than the ‘fly away’ umbrella! hmmm…clever people!!!
After my beach umbrella popping inside out the other day on the beach…and cramped for space trying to hug the shade …I really would LOVE and use the beautiful Hollie and Harry Sombrilla!! Beautiful design! xxxx
Who needs a Bathing Box when you can own a Sombrilla!
Well Done, Girls!!
I LOVE the bright patterns and colours; and they’re so practical!
Gorgeous. I want one in each colour!
Gorgeous – I want one! Still get the breeze and the view and the sand between your toes! Much better than those stuffy little tents.
I’ve been coveting these since late last year! Would LOVE to win one. What a great giveaway, thank you!
just stunning!!
How to keep the flawless white milky skin of my two girls? This way!
Oh, the perfect shade to keep me and my puppy from burning at the beach.
that is the best idea since the invention of the roundabout. want!
Great idea. Want. Need. Love. Must have. Finally something stylish, instead of those tents.
Stylish and Shady, yes please!
I’d love one!
Good helping!
A life saver for a family day at the beach with the surf, sun and now lots of shade!
LOVE IT!
Very clever ladies. A really simple design that works like a treat! I would be very proud to sport one of these on the beach. Thanks for another great giveaway.
every tent i have thought about buying either:
*costs too much for too little protection,
*costs too much for too little STYLE,
*costs too much for too little ease of functionality.
You end up wrestling with it on the beach instead of enjoying being there with your family.
So clever and so chic.
Would love to win one.
love it… need it…!!!
perfect! love the fabrics too
What a fantastic, simple, well designed idea! Well done ladies!
simple and stunning – perfect for the tassie summer with the o-zone hole hovering above our heads!
FINALLY SOMETHING SIMPLE AND GORGEOUS! I would happily sit under that Sombrilla all day. Imagine how a couple of them would look together. I’d even use them for kids in the back yard…
Those tent things are such an eyesore. What a gorgeous way of keeping cool – they should be compulsary across all beaches!
Ingenious and stylish – look out Marc Newson.
A funky contraption to keep the sun of my baby Sunnie. Love it!
I absolutely love these! But what colour would I choose? I love them all!!!!
So bright and colourful…. so summer…. love it!
Those are just beautiful! I wouldn’t be able to choose which gorgeous colour/design either!
Would LOVE one of these – we live near the beach AND we go camping, so it would be a well used, much loved addition to our family :)
Retro fantastic!!
These are so summery- I would love to use this camping down south!
Sombrilliant! I’ve been collecting vintage sun brollies for my birthday garden tea party, one of these would be perfect. You have such fab give-aways, Lucy.
We are going to Golden Plains in March and absolutely need this. It is also urgently required for trips to the beach with the kids, we are currently languishing under a circa 1980 cancer council shell thingy. Please….
Lovely, lovely and great idea. Would love to win. Thanks for the chance.
A brilliant idea! Making it stylish and simple for people to be sun smart.
What a fantastic idea and product! No more sweltering in those awful nylon/plastic tents.
Beautiful! I love how they can be adjusted so you have shade no matter what time of day it is AND always have a nice breeze instead of sitting in a furnace! They make me want to go to the beach more which is never a bad thing, Great Ocean Road here I come! x
Could have really done with one of these yesterday!
Amazing! I love when function and aesthetic appeal intersect. Great design ladies, they are gorgeous. Now keeping my fingers crossed that I get to take one home!
So much cooler than the daggy tarp my Dad used to drag to the beach!
Thanks for the chance to win one.
I hope this is a new Aussie beach icon!
Love a successful mum venture. Very inspiring, my boys would look super cute under one of these on the beach in Port Melbourne!
What lovely shade! I would love to win one, Its my bday tomorrow, that would be the best pressie!!!
What a fabulous idea! They look beautiful. I’m heading to the beach this week for a holiday, and the Sombrilla would be a perfect addition to our lazy days on the sand.
excellent! can’t wait to see one in the flesh and marvel at the simplicity of design. random number generator pick me please! x
perfect for us alabaster sisters in summer!
Oh how very sylish- I love the yellow one! It would match my bathers……..:)
oh my, one would look just as gorgeous in my back yard. what a sensational idea.
What a fantastic design and the fabrics are beautiful!
My girlfriend and I were just talking about the need to invest in a beach umbrella on the weekend….
LOVE a super super simple solution. Would love one of these.
Oh, yes please.
Absolutely gorgeous – love the colours and designs! Well done on the idea – very clever. What a wonderful way to cool down on a hot day at the beach. Love the fact that the beach can remain in full view. Should try and get the Anti Cancer Council to endorse and have on their website. This product will definitely change the way people go to the beach.
the beach would look so pretty lined with these!
Amazing prints. Would love one.
Evokes images of icy poles lined up on a beach – yummy and the perfect match on a hot summers day!
Yes please!
Ooh I would love one of these… just gorgeous!!
Great idea and stunning prints.
What a beautiful solution to such an ugly problem! I would love to own one of these
the blue water droplets one is stunning!
great idea and what fabulous fabrics
Sombrilla = brilliant. Would be the most stylish thing to grace the shores of Scarborough beach WA!
My fave is the orange one. How good is orange!
Now one of these gorgeous Hollie an Harrie Sombrilla’s would look amazing on a Noosa beach ….. and I know just the gal to take one there !!!! me !
I love how they don’t block out the view, unlike the little igloo I currently use!!!
Please, be mine!!
love to win one!!
believe it or not the Tassie sun is scorching!
– would love one to keep my gorgeous girls shady.
As Melbourne’s summer kicks in in FEBRUARY … this is just what we need NOW!! What a great idea … looks like it could withstand a northerly wind too!
These are beautiful. Now on my wish list!!! Pale skin and an aussie beachy summer are not a good mix. This is a super stylish simple remedy…
Fingers crossed!!!
I love it!
what a simple and stylish idea, and very attractive fabrics too. Alas, no beach breaks planned for us, but I think they would look just as wonderful in our backyard!
gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!! i love innovation, i love colour, and i love these! would be delighted to own one :)
Brilliant idea! Bye bye dorky tent on the beach – yay!
Beautiful design. With twins on the way all four of us could fit next summer with style and without sweltering in a sandy tent shelter.
Simple, Practical & Stylish – everything I love about Design!
Sunsational!
I am a pale thing, but i do love the beach…
So simple and so clever. Could do with one of these in Adelaide today!
These look fantastic!
awesome little tents.
Swoon! Yes please.
gorgeous, simple, perfect!! thanks for sharing, would be overjoyed to win one of these.
What a fantastic idea, so simple and stylish. Love them, congrats!
X
would definetely get some attention here on the beach in Perth and what a great cubby it the back yard
Such a lovely design! Looks so much more spacious than those bump your head pop up tent canopies and soooooo much more stylish! Look out Manly Beach!
Yay! for great Australian designs.
Kids or no kids, you need shade at the beach. This baby is beautiful and sure to be the envy of any other beach-goer. Just makes me want to sip margaritas and dip my toes in the water! x
These are such a great idea! We live a street back from the beach and we drag the tent down all the time – and this looks so much easier! ANd what fab colours! Great Giveaway.
Thanks!
What a great idea, I love to see good Aussie design!
It’d be perfect for a picnic in the park too.
I’d love to win one :o)
Perfection. Being white as an A4 page, I am always excited to see something a little bit cute to take to the beach rather than the boring old umbrella.
Sarah x
These are Awesome!! Absolutely perfect for a hot day at the Beach!
City skin need sombrilla!
My backyard would love this.
Wow! Now this is how to relax on the beach in style! French Riviera, eat your heart out.
Mojito on ice… my love and our baby… shaded by a Sombrilla…. aaaah…
Oh this would be perfect!
I’m 7 months pregnant and need some shade at the beach!
A perfect Melbourne summer’s day to post this! Yes, I would like to win one, but failing that you have a new customer, ladies – fab prints, especially the blue!
Missed out on the beach this year! Back at work now. If I won a Sombrilla I would definitely have to get to the beach to show it off.
Beautiful. As a ginger who loves design and lives in sunny Australia this is exactly what i need
hello hello me please, they are just lovely! x
We just moved to the beach! Would love one of these.
So simple….so chic!
Wow! These are fantastic! What a simple and brilliant idea! I would love one of these!
I had the same idea whilst holidaying in Broome last year and seeing all the ugly fluoro sunshelters on the beach. But these are much better!
My boyfriend is as fair as snow white – this is the perfect beach necessity
Congratulations ladies, what a fantastic product. The colours and designs are very stylish. Pick me, pick me!!! i would love one. Good luck with it.
We started to make one of these a few years ago, but got stuck on the pole set-up. Obviously, you girls weren’t going to be put off by such a small hurdle. Persistence clearly pays off. Well done.
I’d love one of these!
Yes please – these look great.
Brilliant! Perfect! Beautiful….this means this Irish lass can spend all day at the beach!
hot! love them. is the fabric canvas?
Like your very own adjustable awning in bright med colours – an instant classic, methinks. I’d feel very classy under one of these.
This would be great. I totally need one of these.
What a great prize and a fabulous idea! Is there anything Aussie mums can’t do xoxo
Oh My! I love love these. My 60’s beach umbrella will barely make it through the rest of summer, and what better way to put it to rest! jx
Ohh I’d love one of these – our beach umbrella tumbled away and broke on rottnest Island last Summer – these look sturdy and gorgeous. I like the yellow one the best! Fab design xo
Awesome. I would love one of these :)
so am amazing!!
I just spent the day down at the beach yesterday and would have found this stylish sombrilla, so perfect !!!!
How come the simple ideas are often the most elgant, and functional! These are wonderful, and would give me an excuse to be at beach or park more often.
Just what i need with this gorgeous weather we’re having!
Just got back yesterday from camping at Tidal River, where we admired two or three of these simple shades in retro stripes on the beach. Such a nice change from the standard complicated fluoro beach tents. I’d like one please!
Awesome. With 3 kids, just what we need over here in WA.
Love ya work.
What a wonderful idea! Just perfect for my sun sensitive skin – no more excuses now
Oh wow. These are incredible!
This is the most fabulous idea: beautiful, practical, stylish and sun smart!
How refreshing! A sun shade that you don’t have to wrestle on the sand with three other people to open/close! AND it is stylish and affordable. I thought these factors were impossible in one product!!
How fantastic is this design! You would stay at the beach all day and night with this.
Having recently tried to wrangle with a conventional beach umbrella – mostly unsuccessfully, this looks absolutely genius!!
love it! want it!
Wow, these are great and so colourful! It’s my goal this summer to get to the beach more, I think I need one of these :-)
Good design= simple, clever, beautiful, useable. Do we get the stunning secluded beach in the prize too?!
Stunning fabrics and something I can finally assemble – looking good and functional YES !!!!
love love love…yes please!
Clever, stylish, simple, affordable design! I NEED one!
Would love one of these pretties- please!
Wow! That is a brilliant idea! Love the patterns and colours!
Our beach umbrella got ripped out of the sand this morning when we were on the beach at barwon heads, and nearly took my eye out!! We found a patch of shade but as the sun rose, our patch dissapeared and we had to go back to our home to escape the sun. We could spend the whole day at the beach with Hollie and Harry’s stunning Sombrilla!!
oooh yummy – just like lollypops, but even tastier! would love to show one of those off down in Elwood! whaaaaahant one!
Ohh sombrilliant!
Gorgeous!!
Love!
Ooh la la!
These are just GREAT! They remind me of a Mediterranean summertime I spent in the Greek Islands – we were always trying to improvise structures to keep the sun off – especially the colour of that Morroccan Blue! What a great idea! Totally love them & love that they are from Australia! I want to go to the beach just so I can put this up & show off! Gorgeous! My summer loving 4 & 6 year old daughters would really love them so they can feel like they are camping every day of the weekend! Really awesome idea. Go girls!
Fantastic!! Such bright Australian colours :)
ohh what a wonderful idea and brilliant give away. i so love it
Wow, just when I thought I’d have to move to Scotland to go outside again.
Ooh lovely great idea
they look like they’re floating in the sun!!! lovely =)
Ohh, I saw these recently SA while on holidays and loved them. Havn’t seen them in Vic before – they are lovely and great colours too!
We had these as kids growing up in Adelaide…brings back lots of holiday memories!
oh my goodness the most brilliant invention ever for my translucent skin! wish I’d had this last weekend, ouch!
Oh yes please!!! How divine are they all…..we head over to our shack in the Philippines and I could share my shade with all the local kiddies….what a lovely thought!!
I’ve only ever seen these in SA but never known where to get one from…or what they were called. Lovely!
How gorgeous
Fantastic idea and functional as well!! I would love one!
These are AMAZING!!!! I love the beach but burn soooo easy and quickly. I would love one! Fabulous!
This is awesome! I have a newborn and I find the kids shade tents are too stuffy and ugly and umbrellas usually fly away on me! I love the designs and colours just great!
Oh my goodness, I think it is a sign…I wen out to buy a beach umbrella yesterday and the girls at Moochinside had sold out…I think I am supposed to have one of these instead! I have 4 children so this is fantastic for us (tricky all fitting under one umbrella!!).
ps its also called the “Moana” beach shade.
what a superb, simple idea!
Please let me win we leave for ten days on Kangaroo Island in a few short weeks!!!!
Really could have used this at The Prom last week.
These are brilliant! After many futile but hilarious attempts by my partner to fold our beach tent on the weekend these would be a godsend for us with our 4 yo and 4 week old!!!
Beautiful yet functional, obviously a mums’ idea…..well done ladies. They have that 50-60’s canvas windbreak feel with a wonderful modern twist
Did someone say beach chic! Yes please. x
how cool. sun safe in style!!
Beautiful and simple! Love them…
What a great idea! So much better than those hideous tents you see everywhere these days…
I would love one!
Love them …excuse my naivety do you just stab them into the stand for them to stay up.
Practical, stylish & love the patterns!! The fact that they’re 100% cotton is a big plus for wash & wearability too – great idea!
Great idea! I love the patterns and look forward to seeing a wider range in future.
How genius. We’ve been looking at getting an ugly beach dome thing… but I haven’t been able to find one with lots of breeze and great coverage – this is perfect. Love, love, love!!
One of those “Why didn’t I think of that” products – great for kids who don’t want to sit in a tent.
Classic combination of 50’s lean to with cross ventilation and style! Form and function!!
wow – love it. great for the beach, and the park, and the back garden. very clever – what a good product.
My baby doll Emily (born 10/1/2011) would look so cute under one of these at the beach. We are constantly at the beaches of Melb and this weekend at Portarlington.
These are THE BEST! perfect design and i love the stylish patterns. I have recently discovered our families old OLD one from the 70’s that my folks used for us when we were kids! but alas it is well over 30 yrs old and has been sitting in the shed – so no good to use anymore :-(
Brilliant design girls! We love the beach but never stay very long as you need an engineer to put our beach tent back in its bag. Good luck with the business.
Cute!
love love love them! breezy, bright and beautiful x clever girls
beautiful colours and design… and they dont look to hard to put up like some beach umbrellas!
So summery an so Aussie! The prints are really fun, can’t believe no one came up with these until now!
What bright and beautiful darlings these are! Lovely fresh colour and smart design…what a marriage made in heaven(or rather, on the beach!)
I would be over the moon to win one of these treasures :)
these are BRILLIANT. i could have done with one of these at Williamstown beach the other day!
great design – so much better than those ugly beach tents – plus they don’t close off the view!
love it!
those are awesome, I’m going to their website right now, and will buy one if I don’t win! Fingers crossed!!
Hilarious. Was just at the beach thinking someone should re-make these great beach tents in cool vibrant colours. Much more fun than the standard issue old school green and white stripe!
Love them, love them, want one!!!!
Ooooh! Clever! Love! Want!
I LOVE these!! I wish I could line them all along the beaches.
peeeerrrrfect!!!! love them, sun + shade = Happy Days, yes please!!
I think I have found the perfect present for my husband’s 40th, which we are spending on Stradbroke Island in March. Another great example of Australian design, Katie
Clever! Would love the chance to win one.
I’ve been looking for a sun block that gives more protection than an umbrella, yet still lets the breeze through and doesn’t block off the beach view.
This is a great stylish solution.
Great Idea, please count me in.
I need this! My stupid beach umbrella flew out of the sand on a hugely hot and busy day at Bondi Beach last weekend … so embarrassing running after it through the crowds as it took out a few small kids.
Yay! Beach! Pretty!
Oh just lovely. Practical with a fantastic print and colours. Move over model and insert me in this picture. Unfortunately i am trapped in a weather board house with and esky freeze block between my feet. Curses to 38 degrees.
Abso HOT!!! I’d have a 100 people under one no probs ;)
absolutely brilliant design!! well done.i would love one!! so much shade would be heaven..
These are gorgeous! I’d love tohave one for the beach
my family goes swimming everyday, with one of these we could take the time to sit and relax afterwards instead of rushing home to get out of the sun-great idea!
I can honestly say that I would rather be seen with the Hollie & Harry Sombrilla than a tan from now on! gorgeous, conscious, and eternal
What a fantastic idea and so so stylish! A Hollie & Harrie Sombrilla would be the perfect accessory for our beachside home.
What with my super white skin, I NEED one of these! Love the fabrics.
I think they are called Moana tents? If I win, I will take it to Moana Beach, South Australia for its first outing…
Its my birthday this week and this would be the bestest present ever!! And we have just moved to the beach so it couldn’t be more perfect!! Fingers and toes crossed I might be so lucky!!
PICK ME! PICK ME! – What a perfect excuse not to come to work tomorrow!
**Cue Phone call to Bossman** :” Hi Shane, I wont be in today I have won a Hollie & Harrie Sombrilla and I MUST check out immediatley if all this hype about them is worthy so I will be at the beach if you need me!”
What a great concept – for both beach and pool!
Those really are what you describe – elegant and simple solution!
So stylish! Count me in…
Love Love Love. Get me to that beach right now. The perfect beach accessory. .along with a corona in hand. Will look great on North Bondi Hill.
What a brilliant idea. It looks so classic, like it could’ve been invented 100 years ago. What great thinking by Hollie and Harrie.
Oh I’d love one!!
Move over rows of Brighton coloured beach changeroom huts, and step up to awesome colours on the beach the aussie way! My ideal beach accessory by far – even as a changeroom!
My freckles found this webpage for sure…
where have these been all my life?
x
Très chic! Yes please! x
oh my gosh I love!!! please pick me I am sweltering in this heat!!!
So clever and beautiful. Living by the beach on the Mornington Peninsula, these are now one of my essential items.
DEAR GOD. PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT THIS TIME. I LET GO OF THE PONY AFTER 8 YEARS. I WANT THIS AND THEN I’LL LEAVE YOU ALONE.
Such bright, lovely colours! Oh to be so lucky!
Heaven!
long time reader, first time enterer! These are so sweet, count me in please! Will be buying some for Easter pressies this year too :)
Today my first baby turns 12, how time flys, what a perfect way to celebrate sitting under one of these pretties at Hampton beach!
Gorgeous! Our beach umbrella just died and summer still has some life left in it!
Protect Me and My Ginger Family!
Pick me and you’ll not only be protecting beachgoers from the sight of us huddling like voles in a hideous plastic igloo tent – you’ll also be protecting that rarest of species – the ginger family.
These make lying in the sun fun and cancer free – very clever!
an adjustable sun shade that is actually big enough to sit under. now that’s a good idea
wow! gorgeous. my 18 month old and I would LOVE to sit under one of these.
Yes please! It is so hot today – I just want to be IN those photos now!
I love the colours, what a great concept. Would be great for a day like today!
oh yes! no more ugly beach tents!
Such a great, stylish and practical idea, now everyone can fit in the shade
Oh Eeeeh! A Hollie & Horry Sombrilla would totally kick any other umbrella in a beach fight. If I win this I am going to have to upgrade my beach cricket set and extend my plans for Stradbroke Island camping next month. Fingers crossed.
Joanne
x I love Saturdays
Wow I want the blue one! Such a great idea!
Clever mums!
Bloody fantastic! x
Un sombrilla por favor!!
The red one matches my beach ensemble!
OMG they are gorgeous!! Love the blue one.
what a super sun smart idea!
wow! what a smart great idea… I love it!!!
Ooh so bright & happy. The sun has been very bitey lately :)
gorgeous!
These are shadelicious!
Oh how I would like to be by the seaside with one of these funky shades!
genius!
I would love to see more of these on the beach than the nafty design sun blocks that currently crowd our beaches. I love the ventolation on these!
Fabulous Claire and Skye! Also love your sun shirts!
Ohhhh, love the yellow print – what a great idea!
Absolutely love this! All open and airy, no cabin fever with this sun shelter!
ooohh! This is exactly what I need!!
Such a great idea! That would be much more comfy than cramming the babies into an airless beach tent. And more stylish too.
Top idea. I wonder if they are really easy to adjust. I’m gonna do some research.
Oh how perfect for my pale skin! The French Stripe is gorgeous.
Absolutely stunning design & fabrics!!!… I could just see myself & 3 little ones underneath one of these. Just love it!
Brilliant idea, I love the idea of me, my baby boy and my very suave bulldog under one of these for the rest of the summer.
These look brilliant! Would love one.
LOVE a lightbulb moment !
A deliciously gorgeous concept !
Very Avalon , I would be the envy and no doubt
become the rep in Sydney !!
Blue is my fav !
Way to go Hollie and Harry !!!!
I really needed this last weekend, I was using two sticks and a towel. Great little concept! Fingers crossed :)
So many lovely and practical things are available now that were not when my children were small- how nice would one of these be for grandchildren?
Perfect shade for our long hot summers on the beach……
So fab in comparison to those nasty little cubby versions.
these look awesome!
A really beautifully executed concept- LOVE the prints!
Great design with delicious colours!
my pale skin could do with one of these!!
Love the designs and would love to sit beneath – fingers crossed
What a fresh new look!! Good buy ugly beach dome, hello Sombrilla! I would love to win one of these to protect my beautiful boys at the beach.
These look like excellent gifts, would be a perfect valentine’s for my mum-
Oh, my goodness. These would be perfect for South African summers on the beach!!
very stylish beach shades, loving those colours!
Great idea -much better than huddling inside one of those little tents on a hot day. Much more elegant as well.
very stylish, love it!
I absolutely LOVE THESE! No more chasing after the umbrella!! i cant decide what colour to buy!
Love them!! How bright and cheerful and stylish… Ohhh sombrilla :)
Can’t believe the coincidence. Just asked a gorgeous Adelaide girl where she got hers on Gibsons Beach on Sunday! I thought they were only for South Australians. Would love to have one to keep my lily white children and husband in the shade so I can stay at the beach longer. Great idea – love the gorgeous colours too.
I love these quirky shades, how refreshing that someone has finally come up with a practical and beautiful design! I WANT ONE!!
Mmm, the sunny yellow is particularly nice. :)
Oh yes please and the kids say please too!
This is GENIUS!! We’d love to enjoy one of these on the beach in WA!! Thanks for the giveaway.
What a perfect solution to the getting good shade at the beach! Well done!
I don’t get it. Lightbulb moment? Design genius?
This exact design has been made in South Australia since 1953 and sold over at REMO for years. Nice shiny photos though.
thank glory for light bulb moments, umbrellas are so overrated.
Better than a ‘brella!
Mine!
oooh. fabulous! yes yes please!
Love the colour!! This would be perfect for my little family x
Gorgeous! WAY better than an umbrella, desperately want one!!
At last some stylish, practical and absolutely beautiful beach accessories. It is about time something like this was in the market. I hope it is a huge success! I’m definitely a fan!!
I just love how they ,somehow, remind me of the bathing box when put together one next to the other one! it will be so festive to see a beach full of these sombrillas! the best of luck the very creative mums who came up with this design! congratulations!
Sunshine Yellow for me please !
Absolutely brilliant. I could definitely put this to use!
The perfect alternative to the traditional beach umbrella. Gorgeous prints!
My fair-skinned daughters and I would love this!
This is such an elegant beach shade! We have been looking for something as gorgeous as this to enhance our lazy gypsett days at the beach! It should be mandatory for style and environmental reasons that everyone take one to the beach, rather than plastic tents! Congratulations on a gorgeous design and such pretty textiles! x x x
Only 490 other people have commented so far – I’m a shoe in ;) testimate to a beautiful product
Just love the idea of these shades,don’t want sunburn, would love one of these!! A great idea and very stylish for the beach or even the backyard
WOW! I love, love, love this idea! The yellow pattened one is gorgeous! <3
So simply chic and so practical! Fabrics are great – love to bits!
Yes please. I absolutely need one of these
Something so beautiful would be great to take the attention away from me in my bathers!
Ahh great! I can now chill and not crisp on the beach and look cool at the same time!
Sooooooooo perfect! I was just talking with someone the other day about needing to get something like this for trips to the beach.
Pretty please Universe…I’d love to win! :)
Love it ! Great idea girls.
perfect – i would love one!
Exactly what is needed to enjoy this summer with a toddler and pregnant!
these are a brilliant idea! I would even pitch one in my yard and lay on the grass with a pitcher of juice!
love! want!
How great you these be for a romantic valentines evening picnic…A perfect hideaway!
I would love one. Perfect for reading on the beach.
What a simple, beautiful concept and very practical. I would love one for the kids and I!!!!
Super cute
Yeah nice!
oh this is perfection- just what we need here in AUS.
love it!
This is the perfect solution for our lazy gypsett beach days…gorgeous, stylish and it isn’t plastic! The Sombrilla should be a mandatory beach accessory for all! Divine…
All my finders and toes are crossed! I have really light skin for a cover up is essential for me on the beach – and this one is really lovely! xxx
Love it!!!
Stylish, clever and practical… Love them! Yes please :)
simple & gorgeous to take camping at patonga too
my fingers are crossed for this one
Fantastic idea, much nicer than the plastic tents on the market!
“French Stripe” Please and Thank You
with six grandchildren this will be used a lot,at home and on the beach.
Thank God, something better than the plastic sweaty tents! Chic and sensible
These are GORGEOUS. I’m pale and love the beach so the Sombrilla is just what I need! x
genius! exactly what i need with such a pale complexion!
Just the thing I need after blistering due to falling asleep at the beach this Christmas!
how awesome! It’s like playing cubbyhouse with two chairs and a blanket but on the beach!
I have a little maniac who hardly sits still, but i’m thinking if we scored the Sombrilla i could probably trick her into hanging out for daydreams under a colourful patterned shade. Just a thought how cool would it be set up in the shallows of the sea on a day like today at 41′ in Melbourne.
Ohhh, I tried to buy one of these before Christmas but they had sold out! Devastated! All would be right with the world if I managed to score one!
Wow these are fabulous!!!!! Love the idea and the patterns. Great work Hollie and Harrie (and Lucy of course) :)
summer lovin’ – great colours and gorgeous promo shots. Take me to the beach please !
well done sombrilla girls!!
Great idea!!!
Perfect!! Just what I need!!!
I love them! Well it is my birthday next week, maybe I could buy one?
these are fabulous. Please enter me in the draw!
They are so frigging cool….literally.
I’ve definitely gotta get me one of those – just came back from a beach trip with my 1year1day old – poor little red lobster arms after 15mins in the sun!
I saw one of these at Byron 2 weeks ago and wondered who came up with that brilliant design. Thanks for letting me know! btw the large family sheltering under their’s looked very cool and comfortable.
These gorgeous beauties would do double duty, both at the beach and in my far-too-sunny back yard! It would be fab to spend some time out there in the summer with my litte boys. Picnics and teddybears… plus the beach of course :)
how perfecto are they? love it. looks so much easier to adjust than the beach umbrella!
Very cool…… fingers crossed
Fantastic idea, so stylish! I love the blue.
So Clever – simple, user friendly and gorgeous to look at! So much better than the plastic, claustrophobic things that always manage to take off!
Yay! What a genius, stylish idea. I’m planning my next trip to the beach already!
So simple and stylish. Hmmm, which colour to choose…
me please! please, please! pretty (umbrella) please!
So simple, clean and lovely! Pick me! :)
Exactly what we have been looking for. My grandparents had something similar in the 70’s and 80′ but no one can remember where it went too.
Love this! Perfect for beach with bubs :)
Great idea and what fantastic prints! I think these will sell like hotcakes now that summer is properly here!!
hey wowee – well done Claire and Skye. these look beautiful and I can imagine lazing with my leetle girls under one up here on the Sunny Coast in Queensland
thanks for the opportunity
Gorgeous new spin on the beach shade. At the beach all the time and would love one of these! Well done.
With my red head partner a whiter shade of pale, these sunshades are a godsend.
Count me in!
another reason to visit the beach!
yes please. any possible way for pale skinned people to enjoy the sun is a must. great idea
i hinted for one of these for chrissy, santa ended up getting me a hideous rainbow fold up tent which i cant work for the life of me. Maybe if i don’t win (what are the chance with?!?!), i should just buy one and make out i won it here!
Love these! My pasty skin would be forever grateful.
Can I get a bikini to match! These Sombrilla’s will make any beach babe look cool!
Love love these sunshades….awesome design!
Ooh these are a bit lovely..! my little ones would look ever so styling under this.! Thanks a bunch.!
OMG! Finally a sunshade that isn’t made out of yawn coloured plastic. Yes please!!!
Yes please! I need one of these! So much prettier than those yucky pop up tent things. Love it xX
What a great idea – nice take on sun shade – yes please
I so love these!!! I can’t unfold and fold my beach tent on my own…this would be the perfect solution and looks uber stylish too!!!
Super smart + such an adorable name!
hehe just what this pale freckly girl needs to actually brave these hot days, fantastic product.
stunning yet practical. who could ask for more?
Cool. I’ve broken three Chinese made pop up beach tents so this looks great.
These are so bright and colorful. I would love to have one!
ok, I missed the deadline (just finished work) but I had to comment. These are fabulous – what a brilliant and simple design (the best kind…). Bravo. Beautiful fabrics too.
What an amazing idea! My girls would sweet under one of these at the beach this summer!
AMAZING! i love this idea, i love he beach but hate how you cqn never get out of the sun (causes lots of headaches in my family :( ) i would love to have one of these, i would live on the beach all summer!
I would love to have one of these!!! Where can I get one??
Sou do Brasil e gostaria de saber onde posso comprar um guarda-sol destes? quanto custa com envio ao Brasil?
thinking this would look so fabulous on my North Carolina beach this summer!
South florida beach colored sun covers!!! How lovely they are …….. Would love to SHOW it off on the beaches here!!!! PIck me —-Pick me——————Please…………
Love the blue and yellow designs, it really captures summer!!!
My family and I love going to the beach in Summer, we currently have one of those pop up tents. It would great if we could win. Not only do they look beautiful but also compact.
Great idea!
These are amazing! I love the colors. What a great idea.
Would be great for a day at the beach at the Jersey Shore!!
Our mission is to bring an awareness of melanoma to young women and men, and how to prevent this and other skin cancers. Our principal audience is Cape Cod, MA where Glenna was a lifeguard. These beach tarps are lovely but more importantly to me, lifesavers. If you are ever interested in donating your product to one of our fundraising events, we would love to have your support. Check us out, and THANK YOU!
how do i order 2? I am in USA.
Love this! Beautiful way to keep cool & relax.
I need one for my beach days here in S. Florida.
I would like to order one of these… How can I order one?
Thank you
I would also love to buy one! How can we order?
How can I order?
Pick me!! I’ve got a newborn and a nine year old and two teenagers. We love the beach and this is a great idea for shade.
Great idea, might have missed something. Can you explain the poles that hold up the slumberland, how do they adjust? From what material are they made, light weight aluminum ?
Wow! I could use this almost everyday in the hot Texas sun! Love the colors too!
Are these available in the states?
I just retired and I’m gonna go to the beach. It’s only 12 miles away and I haven’t been there since the 80’s. You have made a wonderful thing and so versatile. Oh so much better than the little umbrella I bought that hooks onto my beach chair. Kudos to you.
These are the most clever sombrillas ever!
Would LOVE to have one!!!
I love those. They look like they wouldn’t get blown away like umbrellas do.
theybare a fantastic idea. I used to pin a shet to my daughter’s playpen when I took her to the beach. My husband would love this as he burns so easily while my Mediterranean blood protects me.
What kind of pegs do they come with to steak the canopy down? I’m concerned about it being secure in the sand toss in beach wind and it could be a disaster.
I want on
This is an amazing idea!! Can’t wait to buy one for this summer :). Congrats on the idea and making it become a reality!
I really REALLY want one!
we go to the beach every years than so much money trying to find something to shads this seems like a great idea would love myIrish family does not get burned this year that’s why I need lol
Are you still making and selling these? The last comment on here is 4years ago.
If you are still making them have you upgraded so they sre vu protective in any way?
What a great ides. And they are beautiful.
I have to say….you are absolutely genius ;) this is an amazing product! As a single mother of three I know all to well how hard of is to keep the sun off my kids while a day at the park/beach or even the back yard. I unfortunately can’t afford one but wish you the best of luck with your sombrilla! It will do fantastic!!
Sincerely,
Shauna Selman
I went to the order “here” and the web page is not available!!
I would like to know how much they (plus shipping) and where I can order one!!
Thank you, charly
Olá,
Gostaria de informação como comprar em quantidades para o Brasil.
Atenciosamente;
Fabrício Rodrigues
55 47 99339111
Como faço pra comprar …..?????
Como adquirir (comprar) uma sombrilla destas ?
Much needed inn Florida. What a beautiful creative product. Great work. I would love to win
Love
Love this idea. Need to get one
Where do I find one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW