I hope this is OK to post a little fun find.
Congrats to folks who have their final posted! I’m having trouble completing mine, darn. While online looking for help I ran into a tutorial for “wrapping” Christmas lights around text (outlined). I stopped to give it a try. It uses many tricks that we’ve learned and a couple new ones, like how to create a new stroke style. Click here for the tutorial and/or to see a much better example, I had to make myself stop and get back to my final without editing further.
How fun! Reading the comments on this the author of that post also made a wreath wrapped in lights that blinks! https://indesignsecrets.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/flashing_lights.swf