A MUM determined to buy her dream £1m home by doing odd jobs for £1 in the evenings is 1.5 per cent of the way to her achieving her goal.

Chrissi Sharkey, 29, spotted the idyllic five-bedroom Edwardian mansion in Kennington last year and became fixated with it, but knew she would never be able to afford it on her modest teaching salary.

However, after researching money-making schemes on the Internet, she worked out she could do a million jobs for a minimum of £1 to boost her coffers – despite it potentially taking more than 66 years to make her million.

Ten months on, the part-time textiles teacher at Oxford’s Matthew Arnold School has banked £15,000, doing work including bra-testing, jewellery- and invitation-making, and insists she is pleased with her progress.

The entrepreneur, who lives in a £200,000 semi-detached home in Hardings Close, Littlemore, Oxford, said although she is a long way from achieving her goal, her aim is to be able to provide a better life for her family.

She dreams of a pony for her children and a huge garden, as well as a housekeeper.

She said: “Some people are quite negative about how long it will take, but I think it’s going really well. I only work in the evenings, I still have a career as a teacher. I’m literally working a few hours a night so I think it’s quite a good thing to have achieved really.

“I’m bettering my family’s life.

If I don’t get the house, I’ve still got a really profitable little business that I can run.

“I’ve done jobs for people all over the world and people I know and friends of friends give me tasks. There’s also been lots of coverage on forums so I’ve had lots of emails from people.”

After racking up more than 500 supporters of her business amillionjobstodo.com on Facebook, coupled with media coverage, she has enough tasks to keep her busy, boosting her bank balance by between £500 and £1,000 a month.

Among her customers, who come from as far away as Switzerland, is singer Peter Andre who has bought two T-shirts designed by Mrs Sharkey for his two children Junior and Princess.

Her husband Jason, an electrician, also emailed her saying he had been neglected and pledged to pay her £25 to do the housework.

Among the more bizarre requests she has received were cleaning up dog mess, toenail cutting, while one woman wanted her to sew kippers into the bottom of her cheating boyfriend’s curtains – all of which she declined.

She fits in the extra work in the evenings when her children, Deluca, four, and Roco, two, are in bed.

Mrs Sharkey, a former Peers School pupil, added: “Every penny is still towards the goal. This has got to be a good thing if it makes life easier for my family. If the house is sold, I’m sure I’ll find another one I like.”